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U.S. strike Biden

in Syria
puts Iran explores
on notice avenues
Action follows attack by in GOP
Tehran’s proxies on base
used by Americans COURTS GOVERNORS
TO ADVANCE AGENDA
M ISSY R YAN,
BY
A NNE G EARAN Strategy seeks a way past
AND A LEX H ORTON resistance in Congress
The Biden administration con-
ducted an airstrike in Syria on BY M ATT V ISER
Thursday that officials believe
killed a number of alleged Iranian- President Biden called Ala-
linked fighters, signaling its intent bama Gov. Kay Ivey on her iPhone
to use targeted military action to hours after she toured the site of a
push back against violence tied to tornado that killed a 14-year-old
Tehran. boy in her state. Biden almost
The attack on a border-crossing instantly signed disaster declara-
station in eastern Syria, the first tions sought by Govs. Greg Ab-
lethal operation ordered by the bott of Texas and Kevin Stitt of
Biden administration against Oklahoma. He invited Arkansas
JEENAH MOON FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Iran’s network of armed proxies, Gov. Asa Hutchinson to the White
was “authorized in response to House to discuss the coronavirus
recent attacks against American
and coalition personnel in Iraq,
and to ongoing threats,” Pentagon
spokesman John Kirby said.
Asian Americans are feeling pandemic.
All are Republicans. None are
from states Biden came close to
winning.
The facilities were used by Ira-
nian-linked Iraqi militias, includ-
ing Kataib Hezbollah and Kataib
Sayyid al-Shuhada, he said.
under attack and largely alone In his first five weeks in office,
Biden is spending as much time
— if not more — courting Repub-
lican governors as he is wooing
The operation follows a deadly the senators he needs to pass
attack on a location housing U.S. BY M ARIAN L IU legislation. It is part of a strategy
personnel in Iraq that American AND R ACHEL H ATZIPANAGOS that lays the groundwork to make
officials have attributed to Irani- something of an end-run around
an-linked groups. Earlier this They gather almost every night at San Francisco’s Republicans in Congress, who
month, rocket fire in northern Dragon Gate, the ornately decorated entrance to the may be resistant to his ideas, as
Iraq killed a contractor working nation’s oldest Chinatown. Armed with only whistles he looks for outside-the-Beltway
with the U.S. military and injured and pamphlets, the volunteer neighborhood patrol allies who might help him make
a U.S. service member. roams the streets, checking out ATMs and mom-and- good on his promises of biparti-
“President Biden will act to pro- pop shops in areas where Asian residents have experi- sanship.
tect American and coalition per- enced attacks that have left this neighborhood on edge. In some cases, Biden and his
sonnel,” Kirby said in a statement. Some volunteers drive more than an hour to walk administration have leaned on
SEE SYRIA ON A20 these blocks — largely deserted by a combination of state Republican officials to sup-
fear and pandemic lockdown — to hand out bilingual SEE BIDEN ON A8
fliers that explain how to report a crime to police.
Similar patrols have sprouted in Asian neighborhoods

Schools work in Oakland, Calif., Los Angeles and New York City, a

overtime to MARK LEONG FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

response to what these communities say is a wave of
racist violence and harassment since headlines about a
virus from China began appearing in U.S. media a year
ago.
Scandals
tarnish
TOP: Noel Quintana, a 61-year-old Filipino man, was slashed

find missing in the face on a New York City subway train. ABOVE: Amy
Lee, 28, a San Francisco student and volunteer, offers a
woman at a restaurant a pamphlet on reporting hate crimes.
Data is scant, but at least two U.S. cities logged an
increase in hate crimes against Asian Americans in
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students Cuomo’s
BY M ORIAH B ALINGIT
shine
detroit — Kenneth Chapman
Sr. was hopeful as he navigated a
hulking Detroit Public Schools
She sued her enslaver and won restitution
van down the street, pulling up to Henrietta Wood’s descendants now recognize the gifts passed to them from her singular life
a brick home. Out front, there
N.Y. governor buffeted
were signs that the girl he was by claims of harassment,
looking for lived inside. Amid the BY S YDNEY T RENT
discarded plastic cups in the yard,
bullying, withheld data
there was a ball, and on the porch Not long after his mother died on an
a small bike, painted fluorescent October day in 2003, David Blackman
pink. journeyed with his teenage daughter from BY M ICHAEL S CHERER
“Normally when I get to the Pensacola, Fla., to the narrow, two-story AND J OSH D AWSEY
house and I see toys or bikes, I brick house in Southside Chicago where he
think, ‘Okay, somebody’s going to had lived as a boy. As the coronavirus pandemic
be here,’ ” Chapman said. Mary Blackman’s home had once ravaged the country last year,
But when he knocked, no one throbbed with life — the notes as she New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuo-
appeared. played the piano ringing through the mo launched an Emmy-winning
This was one of the two dozen rooms, the smell of biscuits and fudge daytime television show, using
stops Chapman, who works in the filling the air and, not infrequently, the his daily briefings to channel the
school system’s Family and Com- stern thunder of Mary’s voice as she kept nation’s grief, showcase how he
munity Engagement Office, her six children in line. was taking charge and share the
would make, looking on this chilly Now the house was eerily quiet, jammed secrets of his family’s spaghetti
day in late October for students with furniture, stacks of papers and puz- dinners. He published a best-
who had been missing classes. zles, dusty knickknacks. As David sifted selling book about his leader-
Some of the children on the list through items on an old wooden sideboard ship, saw his state approval num-
had worrisome numbers of ab- in Mary’s dining room, a sheaf of papers bers rise to 66 percent and
sences this early on in the school caught his eye. He picked them up and repeatedly denied any interest in
year. But there were 3,000 stu- SEE LEGACY ON A10 the next logical step: running for
dents the district could not ac- president.
count for at all. A contract Henrietta Wood signed with Now, cases of covid-19 in his
School districts across the “X,” her 1878 court judgment, and son state are receding, and so are the
SEE STUDENTS ON A14 Arthur with his granddaughters. PHOTOS COURTESY OF W. CALEB MCDANIEL AND DAVID BLACKMAN SEE CUOMO ON A6

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The Department of Homeland
Security said Thursday it would
provide $77 million in grant fund-
ing for state and local governments
to combat domestic violent extrem-
ism, announcing one of the Biden
administration’s first concrete
measures aimed at preventing at-
tacks by homegrown terrorists.
DHS Secretary Alejandro May-
orkas and other Biden officials
have told lawmakers that they will
do more to address threats posed
by violent groups including white
supremacists, an urgency that has
increased since the Jan. 6 attack
on the U.S. Capitol.
“In the almost 20 years since
September 11, 2001, the terrorism
threat landscape has changed
considerably,” Mayorkas said in a
statement, referring to the terror-
ist attacks that led to the creation
of DHS. “Today the most signifi-
cant terrorist threat facing the na-
tion comes from lone offenders
and small groups of individuals
who commit acts of violence moti-
vated by domestic extremist ideo-
logical beliefs.”
“While we continue to lawfully
protect against threats posed by
foreign terrorist organizations, we
also must ensure adequate focus
and funding is provided to combat
domestic terrorism, some of which
is motivated by false narratives and
extremist rhetoric spread through
social media and other online plat-
forms,” Mayorkas added.
The money, part of a larger
$1.87 billion pool of grant funding
to help state and local govern-
ments face threats and emergen-
cies, will “help raise the nation’s
security baseline,” according to
Mayorkas. The grants for domes-
tic violent extremism will fund
programs aimed at “open source
analysis of threats, execution of
threat assessment programs, the
development and sharing of intel-
ligence across states and between
states and the federal govern-
ment, and the development of
training and awareness pro-
grams,” he said.
DHS in recent years has begun
turning its attention inward to pay
more attention to threats from
hate groups, homegrown extrem-
ists and violent racists. The 2019
mass shooting in El Paso — the
deadliest attack on Hispanic
Americans in modern U.S. history
— was a catalyzing event for de-
partment officials.
DHS’s Office of Intelligence and
Analysis was one of the federal
agencies that did not alert federal
law enforcement agencies to plans
by pro-Trump groups to storm the
U.S. Capitol and attempt to pre-
vent a presidential transition.
Pressure from lawmakers on
DHS to do more has increased
since then. While the FBI remains
the lead federal agency for investi-
gating domestic extremist groups
and stopping attacks, DHS officials
want to leverage relationships
with state and local police depart-
ments formed after the 9/11 attacks
to produce better threat reports
and promote preventive strategies.
A week after Biden’s inaugura-
tion, DHS used its National Ter-
rorism Advisory System for the
first time to alert the public to the
risk of attacks by domestic groups,
citing “a heightened threat envi-
ronment across the United States.”
In 2019, DHS created the Office
for Targeted Violence and Terror-
ism Prevention, which has hired
regional coordinators across the
country to help state and local
governments identify violent ex-
tremists and try to stop them from
recruiting and radicalizing others.
During recent hearings on Capi-
tol Hill, many Republicans have
joined Democrats in calling for
DHS to increase its focus on home-
grown extremists, though lawmak-
ers have clashed over priorities.
Republican members say Demo-
crats were unwilling to condemn
violent protesters and anarchists
during clashes last summer on the
streets of Portland, Ore., where
DHS agents and officers were sent
to protect federal buildings.
Many Republicans have insist-
ed federal agencies should priori-
tize all homegrown violent ex-
tremists regardless of ideology,
while Democrats note FBI data
showing white supremacists have
been responsible for more Ameri-
can deaths.
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Officer charged in
Black man’s killing
A White Oklahoma City police
officer accused of fatally
shooting a fleeing Black man
armed with a knife three times in
the back was charged Thursday
with first-degree manslaughter.
Oklahoma County District
Attorney David Prater filed the
charge against Sgt. Clifford
Holman in the death of 60-year-
old Bennie Edwards. If
convicted, Holman could face up
to life in prison.
Holman, 36, responded to a
call on Dec. 11 about a Black man
who was harassing customers at
a business in north Oklahoma
City, according to an affidavit by
homicide Detective Bryn Carter.
When he arrived at the scene,
Holman encountered Edwards,
who was holding a knife and
refusing officers’ commands to
drop it, the affidavit states.
After using a Taser and pepper
spray on Edwards to little effect,
Holman “fired three shots
unnecessarily at Mr. Edwards as
he was running away striking
him in his upper middle back
causing his death,” Carter wrote.
The shooting sparked days of
protests and demonstrations by
Black Lives Matter groups and
other activists.
Holman’s attorney, Kyle Sweet,
said in a statement that he is
convinced that Holman “acted
lawfully, and we are proud to
represent him as we fight these
charges in a court of law.”
John George, the head of the
local Fraternal Order of Police
branch, said Holman followed
his training and took steps to
protect another officer when de-
escalation tactics proved
ineffective.
The charging documents filed
Thursday include the alternative
lesser charge of second-degree
manslaughter, which carries a
punishment of between two and
four years in prison.
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Tex. ranchers lost hundreds of exotic animals to freeze
BY E VA R UTH M ORAVEC
austin — The deaths are still
being counted, but last week’s
extreme winter weather in Texas
left yet another group of victims
in its wake: exotic animals.
Days of freezing temperatures
kept the state blanketed in ice and
snow, and despite the frenzied
efforts of breeders, ranchers and
other caretakers to maintain wa-
ter and food supplies, the losses
grew: Axis deer. Blackbuck and
gemsbok antelope. Wildebeest.
Even a 58-year-old chimpanzee
named Violet, who had been re-
tired to a special refuge after
being used in biomedical re-
search.
“We have over $2 million in
animals that have been lost, and
another half-million in damage to
infrastructure,” said Charly Seale,
president of the Exotic Wildlife
Association in Kerrville, Tex. “It’s
an extremely trying time for all of
us.”
At Valkyrie Ranch, 50 miles
east of Austin, Francisco Artes put
out hay and alfalfa for the wilde-
beest he raises for sale to zoos. It
wasn’t enough to sustain two
pregnant females and their year-
lings. Indeed, the storm was the
worst possible scenario for crea-
tures equipped to withstand the
extreme temperatures of Africa,
with blood vessels in their curled
horns that allow heat to escape.
“That works the exact opposite
in the cold. The blood in the horns
get cold and goes into their
brains, and they were having sei-
zures and dying,” Artes explained
this week. “We had no way of
keeping the animals warm. We
were out in the blizzard, trudging
around — and even when we
could find the animals, we
couldn’t do much to help them.”
After posting about the deaths
on social media, within hours
Artes had distributed more than
4,000 pounds of wildebeest meat
to people in need. Nothing went
to waste; even the animals’ intes-
tines were donated to a dog res-
cue organization.
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ance eligibility Thursday to in-
clude workers who refused job
offers at unsafe worksites, mak-
ing good on a pledge to reduce
the pressure on people who say
they have been forced to choose
between staying healthy or get-
ting a paycheck.
The Department of Labor
made the shift Thursday in re-
sponse to a January executive
order from President Biden that
broadened the eligibility of Pan-
demic Unemployment Assis-
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whose unemployment benefits
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With no way to keep Valkyrie Ranch’s wildebeest warm, Francisco Artes lost many of his exotic animals to Texas’s bout of winter weather
last week. Across the state, ranchers and breeders lost hundreds of nonnative animals — including antelope, deer and lemurs — to the cold.
“I was telling everybody that
wrote to us to come, but it was
heartbreaking,” he said.
Seale lost 85 axis deer at his
ranch in the Hill Country. An-
other 50 were found at the Lyn-
don B. Johnson State Park, site of
the 36th president’s former ranch
in Stonewall. The reddish-colored
deer, native to India, were intro-
duced in Texas in the 1930s and
today are hunted for thousands of
dollars.
Hundreds of deaths were also
reported of blackbuck antelope,
originally from India and Paki-
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long horns; Barbary sheep; and
scimitar-horned oryx calves. A
sulcata tortoise — one of the larg-
est tortoise species in the world —
was among the 30 animals that
froze on the Ox Ranch west of San
Antonio.
The first storm knocked out
power in parts of Central Texas on
Feb. 11, followed by more extreme
weather that led to wider, rolling
power outages that became days
long and took out water systems.
Ranchers hustled around-the-
clock to keep animals alive as best
they could.
Many of those that rancher Joe
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Reed saw during the freezing
temperatures were desperate.
“They were 100 percent in surviv-
al mode, dependent on us,” said
Reed, who owns an outfitter
called Nomad Hunts. “For eight
days, it was daylight to dusk,
making sure water tanks were not
frozen, making sure animals had
food on the ground.”
Harry Fleming, the operations
manager at a ranch north of San
Antonio, had wild blackbuck, axis
and whitetail deer coming right
up to him for feed — extremely
atypical behavior. “It was very
difficult to watch the suffering
who have been denied benefits,
despite some limited eligibility
for PUA.
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exposure or refusing such work
and then being denied unem-
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and training. “The action that
we’re taking today helps alleviate
that decision, to alleviate that
tension. . . . We know that the
losses have fallen hardest on
communities of color. And if we
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going on,” he recalled Tuesday.
Exotic animals in Texas are
monetized in several ways: for
breeding and sale domestically, to
repopulate endangered herds in
their native countries and as tro-
phies hunted for sport at a steep
price. The industry provides an
estimated 14,000 jobs and has an
economic impact of $2 billion a
year.
Seale said he is working with
the Texas agriculture commis-
sioner to ensure that exotic losses
are counted the same way that
livestock and crop losses are as-
sessed for federal disaster decla-
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access benefits.”
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rations. The impact could contin-
ue for some time, said Andy
Schwartz, the Texas Animal
Health Commission’s executive
director and the state veterinari-
an.
“We anticipate residual feed
needs and cold-related health
concerns,” said Schwartz, who
blamed the sharp die-off on a
variety of factors, including the
animals’ overall health before the
storms hit. Cattle, he noted, are
better acclimated for cold weath-
er and fared fairly well.
The Primarily Primates sanctu-
ary in San Antonio not only lost
Violet, but also monkeys and le-
murs after its power went out,
even with staff scrambling to
quickly evacuate as many resi-
dents as possible from the 78-acre
facility. Some 60 primates were
moved to a neighbor’s house —
with a video on Facebook show-
ing dog crates of bushy-tailed,
big-eyed lemurs in a converted
“lemur room.”
At Snake Farm Zoo in New
Braunfels, staff plugged in gener-
ators to keep reptiles and other
animals alive, used hand and toe
warmers in incubators and
opened the outdoor portions of
cages for the lions, mountain li-
ons and hyenas to play in the
snow. The big cats and hyenas
frolicked as long as their paws
could stand it, then headed back
to the warmth inside, where all
500 of Snake Farm’s species re-
mained safe through the storms.
Regardless of whether an ani-
mal dies in the wild or in captivity,
property owners are responsible
for disposing of carcasses, accord-
ing to the Texas Animal Health
Commission. Ranchers were still
burying the carcasses this week or
putting them on brush piles to be
burned, Seale said. Some left
them exposed to serve as a food
source for other carnivores.
“We got hit pretty hard,” Reed
said. “It’s going to cost us ranch-
ers millions of dollars, if not hun-
dreds of millions. This is how we
make our living.”
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distancing, disinfecting and
mask-wearing, the DOL said.
The provision seems targeted
at the roughly 37,000 people who
were denied unemployment in-
surance after being laid off and
declining to return to work last
year — about four times the level
from 2019.
But it will have little effect on
the 1.23 million people who have
been denied unemployment in-
surance after voluntarily quit-
ting work.
LeVine said that the Labor
Department will be able to track
how many people take advantage
of the new eligibility, to gauge
the measure’s success.
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Biden emphasizes human rights in call with Saudi king
Talk comes as report on
Post columnist’s killing
is about to be released
BY K AREN D E Y OUNG
President Biden spoke for the
first time Thursday with Saudi
Arabia’s King Salman, following
weeks of speculation that rela-
tions were headed for a deep
freeze as Biden has criticized
Saudi human rights abuses, can-
celed arms sales to the kingdom
and scheduled the imminent re-
lease of a U.S. intelligence report
implicating Salman’s son, Crown
Prince Mohammed bin Salman,
in the 2018 murder of Saudi
journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
A White House statement af-
ter the call stepped carefully
around the divisive issues, saying
the two discussed “renewed dip-
lomatic efforts” to end the war
against Houthi rebels in Yemen,
where thousands of civilians
have died in Saudi air attacks
using U.S.-supplied missiles.
Biden “noted positively” the
recent release from imprison-
Manhattan district attorney has taken possession of Trump’s tax returns
BY S HAYNA J ACOBS,
D AVID A . F AHRENTHOLD,
J ONATHAN O ’ C ONNELL
AND T OM H AMBURGER
new york — The Manhattan
District Attorney’s Office has tak-
en possession of former president
Donald Trump’s tax returns and a
wealth of other financial data, an
official said Thursday — records
deemed central to prosecutors’
sprawling criminal investigation
into Trump’s business activities.
The transfer, involving millions
of pages of documents spanning
eight years, occurred within
hours of this week’s Supreme
Court order rejecting Trump’s
last-ditch bid to shield the infor-
mation. In a statement, a spokes-
man for the district attorney’s
office confirmed that Trump’s
longtime accounting firm,
Mazars, had complied with its
subpoena after 18 months of delay
while the former president chal-
lenged the matter in court.
A team of analysts working for
District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance
Jr., including experts from an out-
side forensics accounting firm,
have been at the ready for months
to dissect the records and scour
for any evidence of criminal activ-
ity at the Trump Organization or
by its executive employees. That
group includes Trump, three of
his adult children — Donald
Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Ivanka
Trump — and Allen Weisselberg,
the company’s longtime chief fi-
nancial officer.
Investigators are examining
whether the values of certain
properties in the Trump Organi-
zation’s portfolio were manipulat-
ed to gain tax advantages or favor-
able loans and insurance rates
under false pretenses. They have
asked specifically about the com-
pany’s methods of valuing its
Manhattan assets for purposes of
seeking loans, said two people
familiar with the matter who
spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity to discuss their knowledge
of the investigation.
Biden defends vaccine
rollout, urges vigilance
BY S EUNG M IN K IM
President Biden on Thursday
marked the 50 millionth corona-
virus vaccine dose administered
in the United States by urging
the nation to stay vigilant as he
defended the sometimes rocky
rollout of his vaccine initiative,
saying he was well into “cleaning
the mess left us” by his predeces-
sor.
The halfway mark to Biden’s
stated goal of 100 million vaccine
doses in his first 100 days comes
just after one month into his
presidency, a faster pace than the
administration had first publicly
set. But Biden also cautioned
against complacency and told
Americans not to let down their
guard.
“At first, critics said that goal
was too ambitious, no one could
do that. Then they said it was too
small,” Biden said of his 100 mil-
lion shots promise. “Today, I’m
here to report, we’re halfway
there. . . . That’s weeks ahead of
schedule, even with the setbacks
we faced in the recent winter
storms.”
Still, the pace of a million
vaccines a day had almost been
ment of a handful of political
activists and Saudi American
citizens, the statement said, “and
affirmed the importance the
United States places on universal
human rights and the rule of
law.”
“The President told Salman he
would work to make the bilateral
relationship as strong and trans-
parent as possible,” it said.
The Saudi Press Agency re-
ported that Salman congratulat-
ed Biden on his victory and
emphasized the importance of
increasing bilateral cooperation.
The king, it said, thanked Biden
for his commitment to help de-
fend Saudi Arabia against re-
gional threats from Iran and
emphasized his country’s desire
for a political solution in Yemen.
Neither statement mentioned
the crown prince, known as MBS
and the de facto ruler of the
country under his 85-year-old
father, whom the White House
had made clear it did not want
included on the call.
Biden would speak only with
his “appropriate counterpart,”
White House spokeswoman Jen
Psaki said earlier in the day. She
noted that MBS, who serves as
Saudi defense minister as well as
The Trump Organization did
not respond to requests to com-
ment.
There appears to be some over-
lap between Vance’s probe and a
separate but similar civil inquiry
by New York Attorney General
Letitia James. James, a Democrat
like Vance, is investigating
Trump’s financial practices as
well, telling the New York Times
recently that her team is focused
on whether Trump and his com-
pany “inflated their taxes for the
purposes of gaining benefits”
from insurance and mortgage
companies “then deflated their
very same assets for the purposes
of evading tax liability in New
York state.”
She has expressed interest in
Trump’s property at 40 Wall
Street, an office building in New
York’s financial district, among
other properties, according to
public disclosures that were part
of a recent lawsuit. Vance is said to
be interested in multiple proper-
ties as well, including the name-
sake Trump Tower in midtown
Manhattan.
The New York City Tax Com-
mission also has received a sub-
poena from Vance’s office, accord-
ing to city spokeswoman Laura
Feyer. That subpoena was first
reported by Reuters.
In some cases, owners will con-
test their property’s valuation by
providing data about the rental
income it generates. Such moves
are intended to demonstrate that
the income is less than what the
city believes. Feyer declined to say
which Trump properties are iden-
tified in the subpoena.
Tax commission records show
that, in recent years, Trump’s com-
pany has applied to reduce its tax
valuations at Trump Tower, the
Trump Palace and Trump World
Tower condominium buildings.
Before he was elected presi-
dent, Trump worked with Ladder
Capital Finance to refinance
debts on his New York real estate.
The mortgage lender provided
Trump’s business with loans when
reached by the time Biden took
office, making his promise less
far-reaching than it at first ap-
peared.
The Trump administration,
Biden said, left him with no
broad strategy to vaccinate every
American. He noted that the
12 million shots administered
during this week were double
the 6 million shots in President
Donald Trump’s last week in
office.
The task of vaccinating mil-
lions of Americans, Biden said, is
the “greatest operational chal-
lenge this country has ever un-
dertaken.” He added that his
administration has worked to
boost the number of people avail-
able to administer the doses,
including by bringing doctors
and nurses out of retirement. His
team, Biden said, also has “fixed
the problem” of the supply of
vaccines.
He repeated multiple times
that he was not taking a “victory
lap” on Thursday. That reflected
the sober and somber tone
toward the pandemic that Biden
and his aides have taken since
the start of his presidency, de-
spite some recent good news that
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heir to the throne, spoke last
week with Defense Secretary
Lloyd Austin.
Mohammed is seen as having
a mixed record. While allowing
social and religious liberaliza-
tions that the Biden administra-
tion wants to encourage, he has
brutally consolidated power and
repressed even mild dissent.
But it is the Khashoggi murder
and the lack of accountability for
it that have drawn the most
attention and criticism.
“Our administration is fo-
cused on recalibrating the rela-
tionship . . . and certainly there
are areas where we will express
concerns and leave open the
option of accountability,” Psaki
said.
Psaki indicated that the call
would quickly be followed by the
release of the report by the Office
of the Director of National Intel-
ligence on U.S. intelligence find-
ings related to the killing of
Khashoggi, a Virginia resident
and contributing columnist for
The Washington Post who wrote
critically of the Saudi monarchy.
Lured to the Saudi Consulate
in Istanbul in October 2018 to
retrieve needed documents, the
journalist was drugged and dis-
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. outside a courtroom in New York in February 2020.
His office is investigating the Trump Organization’s financial practices for properties in New York.
Investigators are examining whether the values
of certain properties . . . were manipulated to gain
tax advantages or favorable loans and
insurance rates under false pretenses.
almost no other would. According
to city property records, the deals
included a $100 million refinanc-
ing of Trump Tower, $160 million
for the office building at 40 Wall
Street and $15 million for the
Trump Plaza condo building. Un-
like Deutsche Bank, Trump’s pri-
mary lender, Ladder quickly sold
the loans on securities markets.
It’s unclear precisely why Vance
is interested in the buildings. Jack
Weisselberg, whose father is the
Trump Organization’s longtime fi-
New coronavirus cases, deaths and
vaccine doses in the U.S., by day
As of 8 p.m. Thursday
CASES
Total 28,321,323 Yesterday 76,146
7-day avg.
Feb. 29 April May June July Aug.
DEATHS
Total 506,959 Yesterday 3,156
7-day avg.
Feb. 29 April May June July Aug.
VACCINE DOSES ADMINISTERED
Total 68,274,117 Yesterday 1,809,170
Feb. 29 April May June July Aug.
suggests the spread of the virus
in the United States was slowing
somewhat.
“Covid cases and hospitaliza-
tions are coming down, but I
need to be honest with you:
Cases and hospitalizations could
go back up with the new variants
as they emerge,” Biden said.
membered by Saudi agents lying
in wait, according to investiga-
tions by the Turkish government
and the United Nations. His
remains were never found.
A classified CIA assessment
soon after his death concluded
with high confidence that MBS
signed off on the murder.
Mohammed said he took re-
sponsibility as the country’s
leader, but both he and
then-President Donald Trump
attributed the killing to “rogue”
elements in the Saudi intelli-
gence service acting without
high-level approval.
Of 11 Saudi government agents
put on trial, eight were convict-
ed, with five given death sen-
tences that were later commuted
to 20 years.
Congress ordered the release
of the unclassified ODNI sum-
mary of U.S. intelligence conclu-
sions in legislation nearly two
years ago, but Trump ignored the
mandate.
Along with White House ad-
viser and presidential son-in-law
Jared Kushner, Trump cultivated
a close relationship with the
crown prince and boasted about
saving him from congressional
scrutiny.
nance chief, is an executive at
Ladder Capital. Multiple banking
experts, speaking on the condi-
tion of anonymity to preserve in-
dustry relationships, said they did
not believe Jack Weisselberg had
the authority to issue loans with-
out approval from people more
senior to him.
Attempts to reach Jack Weissel-
berg were unsuccessful, and Lad-
der’s chief executive, Brian Harris,
did not return a request for com-
ment.
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Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan.
7-day avg.
Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan.
“This is not a time to relax. We
must keep washing our hands,
stay socially distant and for
God’s sake — for God’s sake —
wear a mask.”
The president also reeled off a
list of reasons he said the vacci-
nation campaign is not going
faster: the purported lack of a
THE WASHINGTON POST
After repeated demands from
lawmakers, Trump’s ODNI said
last year there was no way to
release the mandated informa-
tion — including names of all
those responsible — without re-
vealing intelligence “sources and
methods.” Last summer, Nation-
al Intelligence Director John
Ratcliffe said that he had deter-
mined there was only “a margin-
al ‘public interest’ argument for
this declassification.”
Asked at her confirmation
hearing whether she would re-
lease the report, Biden’s Intelli-
gence Director Avril Haines said,
“We’ll follow the law.”
Release of the document will
be accompanied by “our further
answer to how we will ensure
that there is accountability for
that murder,” Biden’s national
security adviser, Jake Sullivan,
told CNN last week.
But although a presidential
snub of Mohammed sends a
message, it remains unclear
whether the administration in-
tends to hold him accountable
for the Khashoggi murder in any
other way, including sanctions or
criminal indictment.
During his presidential cam-
paign, Biden called Saudi Arabia
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Trump has rigorously denied
any wrongdoing, labeling the dis-
trict attorney’s investigation a
“fishing expedition” and part of a
political conspiracy orchestrated
by Democrats. Nevertheless, he
faces unprecedented legal jeopar-
dy for a former president.
Vance’s investigation is one of
two known criminal probes fo-
cused on him. The other was
opened earlier this month in At-
lanta, where the Fulton County
district attorney is investigating
Trump’s controversial conversa-
tions with Georgia state officials
amid his failed bid to subvert the
election results there.
The former president also faces
defamation lawsuits brought by
two women who have accused
him of sexual assault. His niece
Mary L. Trump is suing him and
his siblings over an inheritance
dispute. He’s being sued by the
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Feb. 25 public-relations effort to pro-
mote getting inoculated from the
deadly virus that has killed more
than 500,000 people in the Unit-
ed States.
Biden said his administration
would undertake a much more
aggressive education campaign
soon about the importance of
being vaccinated and how to get
the shots. He warned that in two
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a “pariah” with a government
that would be made to “pay a
price.”
“I would certainly not say his
concerns or his views have
changed,” Psaki said earlier this
week.
But as part of its “recalibra-
tion” of relations, the adminis-
tration must decide where to
crack down and where to build
relations with a country it con-
siders an important partner on
regional issues such as Iran and
counterterrorism, and which it is
loath to drive into the arms of
Russia or China.
Biden has canceled Trump-ap-
proved sales of offensive weap-
ons used in the Yemen war and
said his administration was re-
viewing all other potential arms
purchases by Saudi Arabia, the
world’s largest customer of U.S.
defense goods.
In an effort to keep the arms
flowing, Trump vetoed biparti-
san efforts by lawmakers to stop
them and later declared a nation-
al security emergency to bypass
congressional objections.
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Sarah Dadouch in Beirut contributed
to this report.
former tenants of apartments his
family once owned, and by people
who say they suffered financially
after joining a multilevel market-
ing organization touted by Trump
and his children.
The former president or his
representatives have denied
wrongdoing in each of these mat-
ters.
In Washington, the D.C. attor-
ney general, Karl A. Racine, filed a
lawsuit last year alleging that
Trump’s 2017 inaugural commit-
tee misused donor money to ben-
efit the Trump Organization.
Trump Jr. was interviewed by at-
torneys working with Racine (D)
earlier this month.
Among the allegations in Ra-
cine’s suit is that Trump Jr.’s assis-
tant, a Trump Organization staff-
er, reserved a block of rooms in
the company’s name at a D.C.
hotel during his father’s inaugura-
tion. The bill for the rooms was
$49,000, Racine says, but the
Trump Organization didn’t pay it.
Instead, Racine has alleged, the
charges went to a collection agen-
cy, and then Trump’s inaugural
committee paid the bill rather
than the Trump Organization.
Because the inaugural commit-
tee is a nonprofit entity, Racine
has alleged the Trump Organiza-
tion used a charity’s money for
private gain. The attorney general
is seeking to make the Trump
Organization pay back more than
$1 million, with the proceeds go-
ing to charity.
Trump Jr. told Racine’s investi-
gators that he didn’t authorize the
charges, according to a court fil-
ing from Racine’s office on
Wednesday. His sister Ivanka also
was deposed in the case, which
the Trump family has attacked as
politically motivated.
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Hamburger reported from
Washington.
or three months, the nation
could hit a point where it has an
ample supply of doses, but too
few people who either want them
or can access them.
“If there is one message that
needs to cut through — vaccines
are safe and effective,” Biden
said.
He also used the event to
promote two of his main pan-
demic-related priorities in Con-
gress — the confirmation of Xavi-
er Becerra, his pick to become
secretary of Health and Human
Services, and passage of a
$1.9 trillion coronavirus relief
package that is slated for a House
vote this week.
Later, in a virtual address to
governors, Biden pushed them to
support the massive rescue plan,
citing the state and local relief
included in the package. The
president said more than 400
mayors had contacted him in
support of the package, which
includes $350 billion in funding
for cities and states.
“The economic toll of this
pandemic continues to tear
through our country as brutally
as the virus itself,” Biden told the
governors. “We just have to step
up. The economic toll we have to
address with the same aggres-
siveness and seriousness of pur-
pose as we do the virus. And
that’s what the American Rescue
Plan does.”
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CPAC will keep celebrating Trump, airing his grievances

BY D AVID W EIGEL
One panel will discuss wheth-
er tech companies are “colluding
to deprive us of our humanity.”
One speech will explore what to
do when a social media network
“de-platforms” a conservative by
deleting his account. And seven
main-stage panels or speeches
will litigate the 2020 election,
with panelists who mostly — and
incorrectly — argue that Donald
Trump won.
The Conservative Political Ac-
tion Conference, which began
this week, has evolved from a
fractious meeting of Republicans
and libertarians into a celebra-
tion of the 45th president and the
airing of his grievances.
Trump will close out the event
with his first speech since leaving
the White House, minutes after a
2024 presidential straw poll that
he’s expected to win. The argu-
ments among some elected Re-
publicans about whether they
should retool their agenda to
prevent future losses, or revisit
their alliance with Trump, will
have to happen somewhere else.
“The idea that we’re going to
come up with some kind of con-
servative platform at CPAC, it
rings a little hollow,” said Matt
Schlapp, the chairman of the
American Conservative Union,
which organizes the conference.
“Right now, half the country”
feels cheated “by the media cov-
erage of the election. So we’re
going to go back and cover the
facts that most people in the
media canceled.”
The facts haven’t been kind to
that argument. Dozens of law-
suits and Trump’s Justice Depart-
ment found no evidence of fraud
last year that would have altered
the election results.
But polling since Nov. 3 has
found strong majorities of Re-
Attendees of the Conservative Political Action Conference check
out booths on Thursday, the gathering’s opening day.
publican voters agreeing with
Trump and supporting his false
take on the election. That has left
CPAC in the same place as the
larger Republican Party as they
head toward the 2022 midterm
election: wedded to Trump even
as he alienates millions of poten-
tial voters.
The conference, founded in
1973, is usually held near Wash-
ington, with a crowd that can
grow to 10,000 people. It moved
this year to Orlando, where local
covid-19 restrictions allow an in-
door gathering if attendees are
socially distanced and masked,
and complete a quick health
survey.
That will cut the full crowd at
festivities that began Thursday
down to perhaps 3,500 — still one
of the largest conferences in the
country since the start of the
coronavirus pandemic, with all
but the priciest tickets sold out
for weeks. Scaling a four-day
convention down to a virtual
Zoom-fest was never considered,
and it might have clashed with
JABIN BOTSFORD/THE WASHINGTON POST
the theme — “America Uncan-
celed,” a reference to the Republi-
can idea that “cancel culture” is
punishing conservatives for their
beliefs.
Some prominent Republicans,
whose criticism of the election
myths have angered party activ-
ists, won’t be in attendance. For-
mer vice president Mike Pence, a
regular guest who against
Trump’s wishes refused to de-
clare the electoral college vote
invalid, will not attend and has
kept a low profile since attending
the inauguration of President
Biden.
Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, a
onetime winner of CPAC’s presi-
dential straw poll, has been disin-
vited since becoming the first
senator to vote for convicting an
impeached president of his own
party. (He also voted to convict
earlier this month after Trump’s
second impeachment.) Senate
Republican Leader Mitch Mc-
Connell (Ky.), who hasn’t attend-
ed since 2014 and who excoriated
Trump after voting to acquit him
this month, wasn’t invited, with a
CPAC director telling McClatchy
that he could return in 2022 “to
address the improvements to
election laws” Republicans are
pushing through state legisla-
tures.
Of the 47 Republican members
of Congress scheduled to speak at
CPAC, just nine voted to uphold
every state’s election results on
Jan. 6. None voted for impeach-
ment.
Texas Attorney General Ken
Paxton, who led a Trump-backed
lawsuit to undo Biden’s win in
Pennsylvania, will speak about
“the devaluing of American citi-
zenship” alongside Rep. Paul A.
Gosar of Arizona, an early orga-
nizer of “Stop the Steal” rallies.
Former secretary of state Mike
Pompeo, who had resisted the
transition to the Biden adminis-
tration, will speak about the Bill
of Rights.
There’s more on the schedule
than just 2020 recriminations or
election law briefings. House Mi-
nority Whip Steve Scalise (La.),
who voted to challenge election
results on Jan. 6, will lead a panel
on “the angry mob and violence
in our streets”; three panels will
focus on “big tech” and related
“monopoly” issues; and one will
discuss “protecting women’s
sports” from transgender ath-
letes.
A series of panels, including
one with former Trump trade
representative Robert E. Lighthi-
zer, will focus on the economic
tussle with China. Conservative
activists whose social media ac-
cess has been limited, including
podcaster Dan Bongino, will ex-
plore the weekend’s “cancel cul-
ture” theme.
But there will be less debate
about what conservatives stand
for than at many prior conferenc-
es, and far less than the last CPAC
that unfolded after Republicans
lost the White House and Con-
gress. In 2009, after the GOP’s
last federal wipeout, rising stars
like then-Rep. Paul D. Ryan (Wis.)
said that the party had lost its
way under George W. Bush, and a
new generation of true conserva-
tives was ready to lead.
“What the public rejected in
2008,” then-ACU Chairman Da-
vid Keene said onstage, “was
incompetence.”
In 2021, Schlapp said, some of
what conservatives used to fight
over had been settled by Trump.
Some immigration restriction
measures, which were “consid-
ered racist when they were
brought up,” he said, proved po-
tent to “a lot of union Democrats,
a lot of diverse people.” Trump
had won new voters for the party
without the predicted costs
among Latino voters, just like he
had delivered on deals with Israel
despite warnings that he would
destabilize the Middle East,
Schlapp said.
“Even though Donald Trump is
a one-term president,” he said,
“there’s this feeling among Re-
publicans that he was a huge,
smashing success.”
Still, for reasons including in-
party squabbling and the covid-
era Orlando move, the confer-
ence will be smaller this year. The
National Rifle Association, which
had been a six-figure co-sponsor
in the past, is not a sponsor this
year; the organization did not
respond to a question asking
why. There will be fewer exhibi-
tors, and some Republican or-
ganizations like WinRed, the par-
ty’s donation portal, are skipping
the 2021 event after sponsoring
in 2020.
Schlapp’s predecessor at the
ACU, Al Cardenas, had criticized
Trump’s immigration policies; he
was no longer attending the con-
ference, he said, and focused on
his work with the bipartisan
group No Labels.
Despite the anti-cancellation
theme, CPAC organizers have
also kept some people off the
stage. Previous CPACs barred or
disinvited speakers who had ad-
vocated white supremacy. This
week, after the liberal watchdog
group Media Matters published
antisemitic tweets by a Black
commentator named Young
Pharaoh, CPAC disinvited him
from a panel of Black conserva-
tives. Schlapp said that action did
not amount to canceling Phar-
aoh.
“Cancel culture is a desire to
push somebody out of polite
society, destroy their ability to
make a living, and take away
their voice,” Schlapp said, saying
that Pharaoh’s views were “ab-
horrent” and worth keeping off-
stage.
“If that person wants to air
those views,” he added. “I don’t
think they should be illegal. Just
do it on someone else’s dime.”
Some Republicans who had
been comfortable at CPAC in the
past are staying away from any-
thing associated with Trump.
On Wednesday, reporters
asked House GOP leaders wheth-
er Trump should be speaking at
the conference at all. House Mi-
nority Leader Kevin McCarthy
(Calif.), who’ll speak on Saturday,
said that he should. House GOP
Conference Chair Liz Cheney
(Wyo.), who will not attend, said
that he shouldn’t.
“I don’t believe that he should
be playing a role in the future of
the party or the country,” Cheney
said.
“On that high note, thank you
very much,” McCarthy said. He
walked to one exit, Cheney to
another.
david.weigel@washpost.com

N.Y. governor once touted his ‘aggressive’ nature. Now, it could be a liability.
CUOMO FROM A1
glory days of Cuomo’s third term
as governor.
A former adviser has accused
him of sexual harassment, fellow
Democrats are publicly con-
demning what they describe as
bullying backroom behavior, and
federal investigators are probing
the state’s handling of nursing
home data amid allegations that
Cuomo’s administration with-
held the extent of deaths caused
by the virus.
The sudden shift in fortunes
for Cuomo, which has potentially
clouded what looked to be an
easy reelection campaign next
year, comes as an abrupt turn-
about for those who first encoun-
tered the governor during his
daily news conferences. He was
widely praised for offering the
country the sort of strong leader-
ship many saw missing from the
White House under President
Donald Trump. The Internation-
al Academy of Television Arts &
Sciences gave him an Emmy for
“his masterful use of television to
inform and calm people around
the world.” He even welcomed
the term “Cuomosexual” used by
some of his online fans.
But for those steeped in New
York politics, little is surprising
about the recent turn of events,
save perhaps how many people
have publicly turned against the
governor. The rough edges Cuo-
mo once sold as an asset — “My
natural instinct is to be aggres-
sive,” he wrote in his last book —
are now emerging as a liability.
“This is not just an aggressive
politician. This is someone who
has a narrative, and if you do not
publicly agree with that narra-
tive, he will threaten you,” said
Monica Klein, a liberal activist
who previously worked for New
York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D), a
fierce rival of the governor.
“What that means is dissent is
silenced.”
Aides to Cuomo have denied
the sexual harassment allegation
and defended his administration’s
handling of nursing home data.
“New Yorkers know it was the
Governor who worked night and
day to get them through the worst
of this pandemic and, from the
strongest gun safety laws in the
nation to a $15 minimum wage
and free college tuition, he has a
nationally significant record of
progressive accomplishments that
Washington is trying to match,”
Rich Azzopardi, a senior adviser to
Cuomo, said in a statement.
But public dissent is now
spreading through New York po-
litical circles — and notably with-
in Cuomo’s own party — as a
growing number of rising politi-
cians calculate that they can suc-
ceed without the help of the
governor’s machine. Assembly-
man Ron Kim (D) of Queens, who
has been critical of Cuomo’s han-
dling of nursing home data, said
the governor threatened to “de-
New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D), seen last year in D.C., was widely praised for offering strong leadership during the first months of
the coronavirus pandemic. Now, federal investigators are probing the state’s handling of data pertaining to nursing home deaths.
stroy” him earlier this month if he
did not retract his comments.
Cuomo’s advisers denied Kim’s
description of the call, and Cuomo
attacked the lawmaker personally,
suggesting at a news conference
that Kim had improperly raised
money from small businesses in
his district whose legislative pri-
orities he supported.
Kim has denied any impropri-
ety and repeated his account of
the call from Cuomo during an
appearance on ABC’s “The View.”
Other Democrats, including de
Blasio, spoke up to defend Kim
and condemn Cuomo’s conduct.
“The bullying is nothing new,”
de Blasio said in an appearance
last week on MSNBC.
Several people close to the
governor described him as pri-
vately frustrated — and wanting
to punch back against his critics
— even as his team tries to tamp
down stories about the various
crises. A number of lawmakers,
advocates and other political
strategists in New York spoke on
the condition of anonymity
Thursday out of fear of Cuomo
and because the full scope of the
nursing home investigation and
the extent of the sexual harass-
ment allegations are unclear.
“The governor’s reaction has
elevated this into a national story.
Ron Kim gets on ‘The View’ and
on CNN, and it’s self-inflicted,” a
person close to the governor said.
“We have to get those kinds of
people back on the fringes.”
A second adviser in touch with
a number of Cuomo administra-
tion officials said: “People feel like
they are under siege from all sides.
Who knows what’s coming next?”
The governor sees the nursing
home problem as more of a
political one than a legal one,
according to two advisers. And
Cuomo remains in fairly strong
standing among Democrats in
recent polls, and no clear pri-
mary challenger has emerged to
take him on.
“If the vaccine keeps getting
out there, and the weather gets
warm and people go outside, and
businesses start opening up and
people feel good about it, he will
get credit, and his numbers will
go up,” said Josh Vlasto, his
former chief of staff.
Still, that task has been compli-
cated by the sexual harassment
claims of a former aide, Lindsey
Boylan, a Democratic candidate
for Manhattan borough presi-
dent, who alleges that Cuomo
suggested a game of strip poker
once when she flew with him on a
plane and kissed her on the
mouth on another occasion with-
out consent. She also produced an
email from another Cuomo aide
documenting that the governor
said she looked like the “better
looking sister” of someone he was
rumored to have dated.
A Cuomo spokeswoman said in
a statement Wednesday that “Ms.
Boylan’s claims of inappropriate
behavior are quite simply false.”
Assembly member Jessica
González-Rojas (D) of Queens
has called for an independent
investigation of the harassment
claims. A group of former legisla-
tive staffers from Albany, who
formed a working group to com-
bat workplace harassment in
politics, has echoed that call.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cor-
tez, a leading Democrat in New
York, called the sexual assault
allegations “extraordinarily seri-
ous” and said in an interview
with CBS on Thursday that they
deserved to be investigated,
along with the “nursing home
situation that’s unfolding.”
The Democratic-led legisla-
ture is contemplating a removal
of the broad emergency powers
that Cuomo won at the start of
the pandemic, after New York
Attorney General Letitia James
released a report last month that
found the state had understated
the nursing home deaths from
covid-19 by nearly 50 percent.
The state had previously not
publicly accounted for the deaths
of nursing home residents who
were transferred to hospitals be-
fore dying, she reported.
A top aide to Cuomo, Melissa
DeRosa, told state legislators this
month that the full data had not
been released after a request for it
from the Justice Department and
a fear that the Trump administra-
tion would politicize the numbers.
“Basically, we froze,” said De-
Rosa, according to a transcript of
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her remarks to lawmakers.
Cuomo has privately defended
DeRosa, who is viewed as his top
aide and most fierce protector,
and has told others she will
remain in her job, according to
two people close to Cuomo.
Steven M. Cohen, a former top
aide and current ally, released a
statement Thursday defending
the Cuomo administration’s han-
dling of nursing homes amid the
pandemic. He also defended the
decision to not release the full
mortality data out of concern that
Trump would use it politically.
“Even a casual observer would
be entitled to conclude that the
motivation for the DOJ request
was political and had all the
hallmarks of ‘a game of gotcha,’ ”
Cohen wrote. He said the state
had ultimately shared the re-
quested information with the
Justice Department.
The governor’s advisers have
said that the administration is
cooperating with the federal in-
vestigation.
Cuomo had argued for
months, including in his October
book, that New York had per-
formed better than 45 other
states in its percentage of nurs-
ing home deaths — a claim that
relied on numbers that Cuomo
now admits were incomplete.
“I didn’t hold back any infor-
mation because I thought it was
too difficult or frightening,” Cuo-
mo also wrote in his book, a
claim that has now been called
into question. “It’s not my place
to filter or edit the truth.”
Those words could come back
to haunt him in a reelection
campaign. Several advisers said
Cuomo was determined to write a
book early in the pandemic, even
as some expressed concern that
cases would rise again this fall.
The governor said Feb. 15 that
the delay in releasing the full
nursing home death numbers had
been “a mistake” that had created
a “void” of public information.
In July, 72 percent approved of
his handling of the pandemic,
and that has dropped to 54 per-
cent now, according to a Marist
College poll this month. His over-
all approval rating has dropped
to 49 percent, according to the
poll. The polling was conducted
before Boylan publicly detailed
her sexual harassment claims
against the governor.
The nursing home issue has
clearly contributed to the drop,
with 41 percent of New Yorkers in
the poll saying he had done
something unethical but not ille-
gal in his handling of the issue.
An additional 19 percent believed
he had done something illegal.
“This is reverting back to his
pre-pandemic numbers, back in
the 40s, where he’s been,” said Lee
Miringoff, who leads the college’s
polls. “His handling of the econo-
my is right side up, his handling of
the pandemic is right side up, and
people still see him as a good
leader. It’s just the numbers have
come precipitously down since
his record numbers in July.”
Cuomo remains in a relatively
strong place inside the party,
however, with about half of Dem-
ocrats saying he deserves reelec-
tion and no clear primary rival.
He has been moving to shore up
support with African American
leaders in Queens and Brooklyn,
advisers said.
But the current damage-con-
trol effort is a far cry from the
self-congratulatory tone Cuomo
embraced last year. A poster his
administration released in July
— sold to voters for $11.50 includ-
ing shipping — cast the spring
hospitalization curve as an is-
land mountain festooned with
his own inspirational and com-
forting quotes.
“Wake up America! Forget the
Politics, Get Smart,” he quoted
himself saying at the top of the
poster.
President Biden, who had pre-
viously praised Cuomo’s handling
of the pandemic, has been silent as
scandals have enveloped the gov-
ernor. White House press secre-
tary Jen Psaki repeatedly declined
to say in an interview Sunday
whether Biden still considered
Cuomo “the gold standard,” as
Biden once referred to him.
“I’m not here to give new
labels or names from the presi-
dent,” Psaki said on ABC News’s
“This Week.”
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Facing resistance in Congress, Biden courts GOP governors
BIDEN FROM A1
port his policies, including a
$1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill
that includes $350 billion in
funding for cities and states. In
other instances, he has opened a
more general dialogue, picking
up the phone to offer help after a
disaster or to engage longtime
friends.
On Thursday afternoon, the
president virtually addressed the
National Governors Association
— including some governors who
had resisted recognizing Biden as
the winner of the presidential
election — and urged them to
work together on the coronavirus
and the economy.
“When people in this country
need help, they’re not Democrats
or Republicans, they’re all Ameri-
cans,” Biden said. “We have to
fight this together, as one, to state
the obvious.”
Governors may be more prag-
matic than senators, the White
House believes, their desire for
funding and other help from
Washington making them more
open to cooperation.
“They’ve reached out to us
early on, even before the presi-
dent took office, to just listen:
‘How do you see it in Ohio? What
are you confronting?’ ” the state’s
Republican governor, Mike DeW-
ine, said in an interview. “That’s
helpful. It’s always helpful when
people listen.”
In addition, the coronavirus
vaccination effort is creating nat-
ural channels for the two sides to
talk. “Now what overrides every-
thing else is the covid problem
and how we get vaccine out,”
DeWine said. “You find governors
are very, very focused on this, and
the White House is very focused
on this. It’s an area where ideo-
logical differences are virtually
insignificant.”
During the address to the gov-
ernors, Biden noted that he often
talks to many of them and joked
about his trip on Friday to Texas,
where he will be joined by Abbott,
a partisan Republican and
staunch Trump ally. “Governor
Abbott, I don’t want to ruin your
reputation, but I look forward to
coming down tomorrow to be
with you,” Biden said.
Some GOP governors are ag-
gravated that Biden’s White
House has not given them a
heads-up on energy or immigra-
tion policies that have a big
impact on their states, and they
bristle at the lack of personal
outreach they have gotten so far.
But Biden receives higher marks
from many for his handling of the
coronavirus response.
“There’s not a more bipartisan
issue than vaccine distribution,”
Hutchinson said from Arkansas,
a state Biden lost by nearly
28 percentage points. “The dia-
GOP’s Paul castigates
transgender nominee
Confirmation questioning
draws rebuke from
Democratic senators
BY D AN D IAMOND
AND S AMANTHA S CHMIDT
A Republican senator lashed
out Thursday at the Biden admin-
istration’s nominee for an assis-
tant health secretary position, a
physician who would be the high-
est-ranking openly transgender
official in government history.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) criti-
cized Rachel Levine, Pennsylva-
nia’s top health official and a
transgender woman, for her ad-
vocacy of hormone therapy for
minors, sparking a rebuke from
his Democratic colleagues.
In his questions, Paul tried to
draw a connection between geni-
tal mutilation — a practice con-
demned by public health experts
as a human rights violation —
and transition-related surgery
and medication for children. Paul
also complained about Levine’s
support for children who make
the decision to take hormone-
blocking medications despite the
concerns of their parents, assert-
ing she supported surgeries for
minors, too.
“For most of our history, we
have believed that minors don’t
have full rights and that parents
need to be involved,” Paul said at
the Senate Health, Education,
Labor and Pensions Committee
hearing. “We should be outraged
that someone’s talking to a 3-
year-old about changing their
sex.”
Levine — whose confirmation
hearing was held in tandem with
that for Vivek H. Murthy, Biden’s
choice for surgeon general —
sidestepped Paul’s specific points
President Biden and Vice President Harris, center, meet with governors and mayors in the Oval Office this month. During his first weeks
in office, Biden has turned his attention to allies outside Washington to help him advance his promises of bipartisanship. In some cases, he
has leaned on state GOP officials to support his policies, part of a strategy that bypasses defiant Republicans in Congress.
logue has been consistent, it has
been helpful, it has been all
working together on the same
team to get this project done and
covid behind us.”
Hutchinson, who is vice chair-
man of the National Governors
Association, was among a small
group of governors and mayors
who met with Biden at the White
House this month. Although the
Arkansas governor argued that
Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief plan
was far too costly, he said he
recognizes that Biden has con-
cluded “he wants to go big on it.”
“He does have a friendly tone
with all the governors,” Hutchin-
son said. “It’s been impressive in
the meetings I’ve had. He’s a good
listener, and his team is a good
listener. Now, they don’t always
follow our advice. But they hear
us.”
Biden also benefits from long-
time relationships with some of
the governors. DeWine served
with him in the Senate for
12 years, and he recounted a call
shortly before Biden took office.
“I started the call, ‘Mr. Presi-
dent—,’ ” DeWine said. “He said,
‘Just call me Joe.’ I said, ‘Mr.
President, I’m not going to call
you Joe.’ ”
Biden aides say that almost
from the moment they got their
and responded in general terms.
“Transgender medicine is a
very complex and nuanced field
with robust research and stan-
dards of care that have been
developed,” Levine said, promis-
ing to discuss the issue further
with Paul if confirmed.
Levine’s nomination has
sparked misinformation-laden
posts on social media and has
been attacked by some evangeli-
cal groups and religious-liberty
advocates, contending that
Biden’s nomination of Levine is
an effort to “normalize” being
transgender.
Levine — who would oversee
an array of public health efforts
as the Department of Health and
Human Services’ assistant secre-
tary of health — has been backed
by LGBTQ and health advocates,
who have pointed to her record
and rallied to her as a break-
through figure.
“Any senator who votes against
Dr. Levine is motivated not by an
honest review of her qualifica-
tions or concern for the nation’s
health, but instead by cynical
partisan politics or outright big-
otry,” Annise Parker, president of
the LGBTQ Victory Institute and
a former mayor of Houston, said
in a statement. The Victory Insti-
tute provides leadership training
and coaching for LGBTQ people
seeking elected office. Health-
care experts said Paul had wrong-
ly portrayed aspects of transition
care, such as whether hormone-
blocking drugs were readily avail-
able to young children.
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.),
chairwoman of the Senate health
committee, later praised Levine’s
answers and rebuked Paul for his
questions.
“It is really critical to me that
our nominees be treated with
respect and that our questions
focus on their qualifications and
the work ahead of us, rather than
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government-issued phones, they
began calling governors about
the coronavirus relief package.
“We’ve seen real strong biparti-
san support. Unfortunately, the
area where we haven’t seen as
much is here in the Beltway,” said
Julie Chávez Rodriguez, director
of the White House Office of
Intergovernmental Affairs. “But I
think folks on the ground who see
the need of what it’s going to take
to combat covid and get the
economy back on track are on the
same page.”
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice
(R), for example, has come out
strongly in support of Biden’s
approach, saying the president’s
$1.9 trillion package is far better
than a Republican alternative of
$618 billion.
“I don’t think that America can
go wrong being too high, I really
don’t,” Justice said during a coro-
navirus briefing earlier this
month. “I think, today, America’s
got to go to the higher number.”
Shortly afterward, Sen. Joe
Manchin III (D-W.Va.), a moder-
ate who had been working with
Republicans to scale back the
plan, indicated he would instead
back Biden’s proposal.
The praise is hardly universal.
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy (R)
said he grew tired of reading in
Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), right, speaks with surgeon general nominee Vivek H. Murthy, left, and
Rachel Levine, nominee for assistant health secretary, at a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.
on ideological and harmful mis-
representations like those we
heard from Senator Paul earlier,”
Murray said.
Several other Democrats, in-
cluding Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-
Wis.), the first openly gay candi-
date elected to the Senate, also
hailed Levine’s handling of Paul’s
questions while criticizing their
Republican colleague.
Contrary to Paul’s arguments,
and those presented in a recent
wave of GOP-led bills targeting
transgender children, current
medical guidelines in the United
States do not recommend transi-
tion-related surgeries for minors.
Before puberty, most transgen-
der children simply begin with a
social transition, changing their
names, pronouns and clothes to
match their gender identities.
Medical interventions for older
transgender youths can include
puberty blockers and hormone
treatments, but surgeries are gen-
erally recommended only after a
the media about Biden’s energy
initiatives, which have a major
effect on his state, so he called the
White House several weeks ago
and spoke with Rodriguez. He
said he had not heard back from
the White House, and he hasn’t
spoken with Biden.
“We haven’t had any conversa-
tion,” he said. “We read about it in
the paper. And that’s a problem.”
A White House official told The
Washington Post that it had con-
tacted Dunleavy’s office on
Wednesday afternoon to set up a
deeper dialogue.
Dunleavy, who grew up about
10 blocks from where Biden once
lived in Scranton, Pa., had ques-
tioned whether Biden won the
election, and Alaska under his
leadership joined a Texas-led law-
suit attempting to overturn the
results.
Dunleavy had a much stronger
relationship with former presi-
dent Donald Trump, a leader he
called “the best president for
Alaska since statehood.” They
met at least nine times, and when
Air Force One would make refuel-
ing stops in Alaska, Dunleavy
said, he would be invited aboard.
Beyond such niceties, Biden
has rapidly reversed many of
Trump’s climate change policies
and banned new drilling permits
person turns 18.
The clash between Paul and his
fellow senators over his ques-
tions to Levine eclipsed the can-
didacy of Murthy, who served as
surgeon general during the
Obama administration and is
bidding for a second stint. Mur-
thy, who narrowly won confirma-
tion in 2014 after a 13-month
battle, is expected to need the
support of all 50 Senate Demo-
crats to win the job again, al-
though Sam Runyon, spokes-
woman for Sen. Joe Manchin III
(D-W.Va.), said last week that the
senator was undecided on Mur-
thy. Manchin voted against Mur-
thy in 2014.
Republicans have been critical
of Murthy’s long-held stance that
gun violence is a public health
problem — an issue that Sen.
Mike Braun (R-Ind.) probed
again at Thursday’s hearing —
and his role as a close Biden
adviser.
“I worry about your ability to
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on federal land. “I hate to say it,
but we’re girding ourselves for a
couple of long years,” Dunleavy
said. “Right out of the gate, it’s
not looking good for Alaska on a
whole host of issues.”
North Dakota Gov. Doug Bur-
gum (R) also said he is frustrated.
In mid-December, he requested a
meeting with Vice President Har-
ris and said he was directed to
Rodriguez.
“I was at the inauguration and
heard the speech firsthand about
working together and unity,” Bur-
gum said. “And the first couple of
weeks has been a barrage of
executive orders that have had a
direct impact on our economy,
our communities, our schools.”
The most direct contact be-
tween the White House and gov-
ernors comes during a weekly call
on the coronavirus response. It’s
a continuation of a practice start-
ed during the Trump administra-
tion, but with notable differenc-
es.
Former vice president Mike
Pence used to lead the video calls
from the Situation Room, often
joined by top health advisers
including Anthony S. Fauci, Deb-
orah Birx and Scott Atlas.
Now the calls are led by Jeff
Zients, Biden’s coronavirus re-
sponse coordinator, who is both
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separate political influence from
your ability to communicate
health-care decisions,” said Sen.
Richard Burr (N.C.), the commit-
tee’s top Republican, faulting
Murthy for speaking at the Dem-
ocratic National Convention and
coordinating with Biden’s mes-
sages on vaccines.
“The surgeon general has to be
trusted for the facts,” Burr said.
Republicans did not address
Murthy’s work as a highly paid
coronavirus consultant for the
cruise line industry, Airbnb and
other companies last year, which
began while he was also advising
Biden — at the time, the pre-
sumptive Democratic nominee —
in daily calls on coronavirus
strategy. The Washington Post
reported last week that Murthy
was paid more than $2 million to
offer expert advice on the pan-
demic.
Good-government watchdogs
have raised questions about Mur-
thy’s potential conflicts of inter-
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more hands-on and less senior
than Pence. Biden and Harris do
not participate, and the sessions
are held via conference call rather
than video, making it unclear
who is taking part. The calls are
more businesslike and stream-
lined, 45 minutes rather than up
to two hours.
Some predicted the changes
will make the calls less effective.
“On a video call, every gover-
nor is like, ‘If we’re not on the call,
they’re going to see we’re not. We
need to be on the meeting and
interact with the other governors
and the Cabinet,’ ” Burgum said.
“With teleconference, I’d guess in
a short time you’re going to have
governors stop calling in and
have a staffer call in. . . . It just
seems there’s been some layers
added with less direct contact
with the administration.”
Biden, when it comes to engag-
ing fellow political leaders, ap-
pears to fall somewhere between
Trump, who often called un-
prompted to seek input and affir-
mation, and former president Ba-
rack Obama, who was wary of the
give-and-take among elected offi-
cials. Past connections with him
are beneficial, and Biden has
been quick to respond to states
confronting tragedy or national
disaster.
Last week, Biden’s office quick-
ly scheduled a call with seven
governors — most from red states
— to discuss the severe winter
storm. He opened by jokingly
quoting former president Ronald
Reagan: “The nine most terrify-
ing words in the English lan-
guage are, ‘I’m from the govern-
ment and I’m here to help.’ ”
At the end of the call, Biden
said he wanted to talk more with
the governors later about advanc-
ing new solar technology that can
store power longer.
“He was very focused on solv-
ing the problem at hand,” said
one participant, who spoke on
the condition of anonymity to
discuss a private conversation.
“There was no sort of blame or
‘We need to fix this.’ It was, ‘What
does your state need? And if you’d
be open to it, we’d love to talk
about it more in the future about
this solar stuff.’ ”
As Biden begins focusing on
his infrastructure plan, potential-
ly his next major initiative, he
could turn even more to GOP
governors as he faces resistance
from congressional Republicans.
“There is a big difference — in
general, governors have to be
pragmatic, and they have to be
problem-solvers,” said DeWine.
“The buck stops with them. Gov-
ernors talk a lot across party
lines. Most issues we deal with,
we’re as comfortable talking to a
Democrat as we are a Republi-
can.”
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est, a concern echoed by some
members of the medical commu-
nity.
“Taking hundreds of thou-
sands of dollars from these com-
panies on the eve of shaping
federal policy around these issues
is absolutely unacceptable in my
mind,” Vinay Prasad, a physician
who has studied conflicts of in-
terest and has written critically
about Murthy’s nomination, told
The Post. Prasad said he was
disappointed that Democrats re-
peatedly criticized Trump’s
health nominees, who were scru-
tinized for their corporate ties,
but did not raise the issue at
Murthy’s confirmation hearing.
Murthy has pledged to recuse
himself from issues related to his
former clients, and his support-
ers have rallied to his defense.
“There are people who would
sell their integrity for $,” tweeted
Sachin H. Jain, chief executive of
the SCAN Group and a former
HHS official. “I know personally
Surgeon General nominee
@vivek_murthy isn’t one of
them.”
Senate Democrats on Thurs-
day repeatedly endorsed Mur-
thy’s work, pointing to his
Obama-era efforts to tackle pub-
lic health problems such as youth
use of e-cigarettes and the na-
tion’s opioid crisis.
In the hearing, Republicans
quizzed both Biden nominees on
their coronavirus strategies, criti-
cizing Levine for poor outcomes
at Pennsylvania nursing homes
during the pandemic.
“The tragic high mortality rate
in your state’s nursing homes
shows more was needed but
wasn’t provided,” Burr told
Levine.
Democrats called for swift con-
firmation of both nominees, cit-
ing the mounting toll from the
coronavirus.
“I hope we can come together
to confirm them in quick biparti-
san fashion, and work with them
the way families across the coun-
try so desperately need us to,”
Murray said.
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Scrutiny continues to build over Biden’s choice for OMB
Chief of staff stands by
Tanden even as path
to confirmation is hazy
BY J EFF S TEIN
AND S EUNG M IN K IM
White House Chief of Staff Ron
Klain is at the center of the con-
troversy over President Biden’s
choice to lead the budget office, a
pick now likely to deal the admin-
istration its first significant polit-
ical defeat.
Klain is an ally of Neera Tand-
en’s and a key advocate who rec-
ommended her to lead the White
House Office of Management and
Budget, according to four senior
Democratic officials who spoke
on the condition of anonymity to
share details of private conversa-
tions. As Tanden’s strongest sup-
porter in Biden’s inner circle,
Klain has been adamant that the
administration should continue
to push for Tanden’s nomination
despite the long odds, the officials
said.
The rocky rollout of Tanden’s
nomination is partly the result of
the White House misjudging how
harshly Republicans and at least
one Democrat would judge her
record, as well as some problems
in failing to consult lawmakers
ahead of the nomination. Tand-
en’s challenges in being con-
firmed also underscore the risks
for the president’s chief of staff,
who must maintain Biden’s confi-
dence across a range of personnel
and policy decisions.
Tanden is broadly popular
among senior White House offi-
cials, who cite her life experience
and long record in key policymak-
ing positions, and has been re-
peatedly strongly backed by the
president himself. The vast ma-
jority of congressional Democrats
have also supported Tanden.
Klain declined to comment.
“This was Ron, Ron, Ron, Ron,”
one of the senior Democratic offi-
cials said. “Ron is doing a great
job, but this was not his best
moment.”
Scrutiny over Tanden’s selec-
tion has continued to build as the
story over her uneven reception
on Capitol Hill stretched through
the week.
Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.)
announced he will vote against
Tanden, imperiling her nomina-
tion in a narrowly divided Senate
and putting the White House in
the awkward position of scram-
bling to find Republican votes to
secure her confirmation. One key
GOP senator — Sen. Lisa Mur-
kowski (R-Alaska) — said
Wednesday that she has not made
a decision, although she was criti-
cal of Tanden’s past rhetoric and
skeptical of the White House’s
efforts to persuade her. Sen.
Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa),
whom administration officials
named as a potential supporter,
said Thursday that he would op-
pose Tanden.
If Tanden’s nomination is with-
drawn, Klain’s handling of it may
face scrutiny. Senate Budget
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White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, seen in 2015, recommended Neera Tanden to lead the White
House Office of Management and Budget, according to several senior Democratic officials.
en’s nomination, although Sand-
ers and Tanden have often been at
odds. Critics also contend that
Klain and other White House offi-
cials should have known Tanden
faced a difficult path to Senate
approval, based on her reputation
among GOP lawmakers, and that
they should have reached out to
Republicans earlier.
“The White House misjudged
this,” said Brian Riedl, conserva-
tive scholar at the libertarian-
leaning Manhattan Institute.
“Had they done outreach to Re-
publican senators, they would
have known that Tanden has long
been well-known in Republican
circles.”
Appearing on MSNBC on
night, Klain strongly defended
Tanden as a “superb” pick to lead
OMB and said “we’re fighting our
guts out” to get her confirmed. If
rejected by the Senate, Klain said,
Tanden would be given an admin-
istration position not requiring
Senate confirmation. The White
House declined to comment or
make Klain available for this sto-
ry.
“Let me be clear: We’re going to
get Neera Tanden confirmed.
That’s what we’re working for.
And she will be prove her critics
wrong as an outstanding budget
director that works with people
on both sides of the aisle,” Klain
said on MSNBC night. “That’s
what I think her record truly
shows.”
Klain and Tanden have over-
lapped in Democratic circles for
more than two decades. Klain
served as a board member at the
Center for American Progress Ac-
tion Fund, the advocacy arm of
the Center for American Progress,
the think tank led by Tanden.
After serving as Biden’s chief of
staff during the Obama adminis-
tration, Klain was brought in as a
senior adviser to Hillary Clinton’s
2016 campaign. Tanden is a long-
standing Clinton confidante. And
Klain’s relationship with the Clin-
tons dates to Bill Clinton’s first
term in the White House, as well
as serving as chief of staff to
former vice president Al Gore.
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When Klain was appointed to
coordinate the U.S. response to
the Ebola outbreak during the
Obama administration, Tanden
issued an effusive statement in
2014, praising him.
White House officials said that
Tanden is well-liked across the
administration and that the pres-
ident is sticking by the nomina-
tion — something acknowledged
even by those skeptical of the
pick.
Biden has said that Tanden is
“smart as hell” and called her a
“brilliant policy mind with criti-
cal, practical experience across
government.” The president has
repeatedly vowed to find the votes
to secure her approval through
the Senate. Biden did not come up
with the idea to nominate Tanden
but closely reviewed her nomina-
tion before deciding to support
her, the Democratic officials said.
Other senior administration
officials — including Vice Presi-
dent Harris; White House coun-
selor Steve Ricchetti; and Reema
Dodin, deputy legislative director
— are also among those viewed as
loyal to Tanden and supportive of
her continuing to fight for her
nomination, according to two
people granted anonymity to
share details of internal dynam-
ics.
One senior official involved in
the selection of Biden’s Cabinet,
who spoke on the condition of
anonymity to share details from
internal conversations, said
Tanden was a “no-brainer for a
high-level policy role” in a Demo-
cratic administration and en-
joyed substantial support among
Biden’s team.
In addition to recommending
Tanden, Klain also strongly rec-
ommended Merrick Garland,
Biden’s pick for attorney general;
Deb Haaland, his pick for interior
secretary; Jennifer Granholm,
the nominee for energy secretary;
and Cecilia Rouse, his choice to
lead the White House Council of
Economic Advisers, according to
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“This administration
has a lot of experienced
people in it, and I was
surprised that red flags
did not go off . . . when
Neera Tanden was first
discussed.”
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)
president. Those nominees are all
expected to have a smoother path
to confirmation, with Manchin
announcing Wednesday that he
will vote for Haaland.
Still, Tanden’s selection has fu-
eled Republican complaints
about the direction of the admin-
istration, particularly because of
her insults of GOP lawmakers on
Twitter. She called Sen. Susan
Collins (R-Maine) “the worst” and
referred to Senate Minority Lead-
er Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as
“Voldemort,” among other epi-
thets. Tanden deleted many of
these tweets before her confirma-
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tions hearings and apologized for
them repeatedly during her hear-
ings.
“This administration has a lot
of experienced people in it, and I
was surprised that red flags did
not go off, or that they weren’t
raised when Neera Tanden was
first discussed,” Collins said
Wednesday.
To some, Tanden’s nomination
represented a surprising misfire
by Klain when it was announced
along with other economic ap-
pointments on Nov. 29. At that
point, Republicans appeared like-
ly to maintain control of the Sen-
ate, and the Georgia runoff elec-
tions were more than a month
away. Even some Biden transition
officials knew it would be a chal-
lenge for Tanden to secure ap-
proval through the Senate, two of
the senior Democratic officials
said.
Tanden surprised skeptics by
working hard to assuage the con-
cerns of lawmakers. “She really
did reach out to everyone and
apologize, and busted her tail,
and said all the right things,” one
senior Democratic official said.
“What’s happened is deeply sad in
a lot of ways because she’s thrown
herself into the work. She took
time to really dig in and learn
about Republican priorities and
the work of OMB. Recognizing
the challenge, I think she has
done almost twice as much as
other nominees.”
Tanden has engaged with at
least 44 senators, according to
White House press secretary Jen
Psaki. Her allies also believed that
Manchin was going to be support-
ive before the West Virginia sena-
tor announced his opposition to
her nomination, two senior Dem-
ocratic officials said.
Biden allies also thought Presi-
dent Donald Trump’s Cabinet se-
lections might make it easier for
Tanden to be approved, several
senior Democratic officials said.
Democrats had assumed Tanden’s
path to the OMB job would be
easier given that conservative
firebrands Russ Vought and Mick
Mulvaney had both led the budg-
et office under Trump. They have
also pointed to Tanden’s experi-
ence, both at high levels of gov-
ernment and while leading the
Center for American Progress, a
multimillion-dollar think tank
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While Tanden has faced criti-
cism for her partisan streak, Mul-
vaney once called himself a
“right-wing nutjob” and also
launched personal attacks on
lawmakers including Trump, his
eventual boss, whom he called a
“terrible human being” in 2016,
according to the Daily Beast. Mul-
vaney was confirmed by the Re-
publican Senate in 2017. Trump’s
personal insults of GOP and Dem-
ocratic lawmakers were also pro-
digious.
“Republicans are guilty of as-
tounding hypocrisy, astounding
hypocrisy,” former governor Ed
Rendell (D-Pa.) said. “For them to
complain about calling somebody
names on Twitter — after they
stood by and supported the presi-
dent — is just pathetic. Absolutely
pathetic.”
But problems from Tanden’s
past have continued to interfere
with her nomination, even
among Democrats. In addition to
Manchin, Sens. Kyrsten Sinema
(D-Ariz.) and Sanders (I-Vt.) have
not yet said how they would vote
for Tanden.
Sanders staffers and Klain had
a close relationship in the after-
math of the Democratic presiden-
tial primaries, working together
on the Democratic platform.
Some said they felt blindsided not
to have been told about the selec-
tion of a Sanders adversary to a
major Cabinet post, according to
two people who spoke on the
condition of anonymity to de-
scribe the private matter.
Asked about the matter on
Wednesday, White House press
secretary Jen Psaki said at a news
conference that Sanders is fre-
quently consulted on other mat-
ters and works closely with the
president. She added that during
the transition “there often was
consultation with a limited num-
ber of members, but it typically
was not very broad.”
As of Thursday, White House
officials were still expressing op-
timism that a GOP senator could
be persuaded to salvage Tanden’s
nomination. Whether they suc-
ceed will be an early test for Klain,
who has emerged as one of the
more crucial figures in shaping
the direction of the Biden admin-
istration.
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LEGACY FROM A1

scanned them: They were photo-

copies of a one-page contract
written in a very old-fashioned,
angular black script. David had
difficulty making out what it said,
let alone its import, but two
words stood out: “Henrietta
Wood.”
The name appeared in the first
line and again at the bottom of
the page, accompanied under-
neath by a large slanted “X.”
Above the name and signature of
the illiterate Wood, David could
make out part of another signa-
ture, “Brandon,” and then a date:
7 January 1866.
Before returning to Florida, he
and Danielle packed up the docu-
ment as well as Mary’s old family
photographs.
He and Danielle tried for
months to decipher the handwrit-
ing in the contract, but even as
they were able to come up with a
rough transcription, its existence
mystified them. Who was this
Wood, whose name had no echoes
in their family, and why did Mary
Blackman care?
Yet life soon washed over them.
David had retired after a long
career in the Air Force and a stint
as a postal worker to care for
Danielle alone when his second
wife died of cancer. Then, in
college, Danielle was diagnosed
with a rare neurological disorder.
Father and daughter became con-
sumed by her illness and the legal
fight to secure disability benefits
for her. Family history would
need to wait.
Years would pass before David
would learn about the indomita-
ble woman who would turn out to
be his great-great-grandmother.
After the Civil War, Henrietta
Wood sued for reparations for her
enslavement, becoming the recip-
ient of the largest sum known to
have been awarded by the U.S.
courts as restitution for slavery.
Her case has fresh resonance in
2021, as Congress debates form-
ing a commission to examine the
nation’s support for slavery, and
the brutal racial oppression that
followed, and propose repara-
tions for its enduring conse-
quences.
In 1870, Wood’s reparations
lawsuit was “about more than
Wood alone,” wrote Rice Univer-
sity professor W. Caleb McDaniel
in his Pulitzer Prize-winning
book about the case, “Sweet Taste
of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery
and Restitution.” “It was about
what former slaves were owed . . .
as well about the real differences
restitution could make.”
Wood’s audacious quest for
justice and the resulting victory,
her great-great-grandson would
later conclude, had left a lasting
mark on her descendants — no
matter that they did not know it.
‘I thought I should die’
Wood was born into slavery in
the early 19th century on a Ken-
tucky farm owned by a man
named Moses Tousey, McDaniel
writes. After Tousey died, the
teenage Wood was purchased in
1834 for $700 by Henry Forsyth, a
Louisville merchant whom she
would later describe to a reporter
as “a pretty mean man” who beat
her frequently. She cooked,
scrubbed and did the laundry.
A few years later, Wood was
sold to another Louisville mer-
chant, William Cirode, again as a
domestic servant. Cirode moved
with his family to New Orleans,
but plagued by debts and legal
troubles, Cirode fled back to his
native France around 1844, leav-
ing Wood and his other enslaved
people with his wife. Jane Cirode
relocated to Cincinnati while
renting Wood out as domestic
labor in Louisville.
Possibly to evade her hus-
band’s creditors, Cirode eventual-
ly brought Wood to Cincinnati
and legally freed her in 1848.
Wood was able to earn wages as a
maid, an experience she would
later refer to as “a sweet taste of
liberty.”
It didn’t last.
Jane Cirode’s daughter and
son-in-law, Josephine and Robert
White, had been disgruntled by
her decision to free what they
viewed as their human inheri-
tance. In 1853, after Jane had
died, they schemed with Wood’s
then-employer to coax Wood into
accompanying her on a carriage
ride to nearby Covington, Ky.
When they arrived on the other
side of the river, three men,
among them a deputy sheriff in
Covington named Zebulon Ward,
ordered Wood to get out of the
carriage.
“Now don’t run or I’ll shoot
you,” Wood recalled one of the
men saying.
“I’ve got nothing to run for,”
said Wood, at which point one of
the men commented, “She talks
mighty big, don’t she?”
Wood — a large woman who
was close to 6 feet tall and as
“strong as most men,” according
to her self-description — had
been more vulnerable than per-
haps she realized.
Although Ohio had outlawed
slavery in 1802, it was a perilous
place to be a free Black person.
Even after the birth of the aboli-
The persistence of Henrietta Wood,
twice enslaved and finally victorious
tionist movement, many White
southern Ohioans in particular
sympathized with enslavers and
were eager to maintain peace
with neighboring Kentucky.
Forebears of David Blackman. In 2003, he found a faded 19th-century document in his late mother’s
home and began a quest that would reveal the life of his great-great-grandmother Henrietta Wood.
COURTESY OF DAVID BLACKMAN
Black people were kidnapped
back into slavery with little out-
cry, and the situation only wors-
ened after 1850 with the passage
of the Fugitive Slave Act.
JULIE BENNETT FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
COURTESY OF DAVID BLACKMAN
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Danielle Blackman, seen near her
home in Pensacola, Fla., is a great-great-great-granddaughter of
Henrietta Wood, who survived two periods of slavery unbowed.
The violin that Wood’s son, Arthur Simms Sr., bought for his
son, Arthur Simms Jr., perhaps started the family’s involvement
with music. An undated image of Arthur Simms Sr. in Chicago.
As Wood awaited her fate in a to question Wood, and she decid-
fourth-story bedroom in a Boone ed to share her story. The kidnap-
County, Ky., inn, a young White pers soon moved Wood to a slave
man, perhaps the innkeeper’s pen in Lexington, where she lan-
son, entered the room and began guished for a year.
“The sun never shined on me
all that time — never once,” Wood
later told a reporter.
Eventually, the man at the inn
helped her press her case in court
that she had been abducted.
Wood was not allowed to testify
on her own behalf, and Ward
maintained that she was still en-
slaved when he purchased her.
Her freedom papers had been lost
in a Cincinnati courthouse fire in
1849. The case was eventually
dismissed, and Wood became the
legal property of a White man
once again.
Ward took her to Natchez,
Miss., and put her up for sale at a
notorious slave market known as
Forks of the Road. There, Gerard
Brandon, a rich plantation owner,
bought Wood and put her to work
in the cotton fields.
“I sowed the cotton, hoed the
cotton and picked the cotton,” she
said. “I worked under the mean-
est overseers, and got flogged and
flogged until I thought I should
die.”
During that time, Wood gave
birth to her son, Arthur.
After Abraham Lincoln issued
the Emancipation Proclamation
JULIE BENNETT FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
in 1863, Brandon force-marched
Wood and hundreds of other peo-
ple he enslaved 400 miles to
Texas, just days before the Union
Army arrived at Natchez to free
thousands of enslaved people.
Wood remained enslaved even
after “Juneteenth,” — June 19,
1865 — when Union soldiers ar-
rived in Texas to enforce emanci-
pation. She did not gain her free-
dom until 1866, when she signed
a contract with Brandon to be-
come the family’s domestic serv-
ant back in Mississippi. She later
told a reporter that she was never
paid the $10 a month she was
owed.
Wood eventually returned to
Cincinnati with the son she had
managed to keep by her side.
Once again, she shared her story,
this time as part of a lawsuit filed
in federal court in 1870.
In her unprecedented legal
claim, Wood demanded that the
kidnappers’ ringleader, Ward, the
deputy sheriff who by then had
become wealthy through convict
leasing, pay her $20,000 in repa-
rations.
Wood’s case suffered a setback
when her lawyer was killed in
1874, but in 1878 a jury decreed
that Ward owed her $2,500 —
roughly $65,000 in today’s dol-
lars — for lost wages and freedom.
It was a fraction of what she had
sought but still offered her a
measure of financial stability in
1879, the year Ward paid up.
Wood’s suit received ample me-
dia attention at the time. Echoing
Ward’s lawyer, critics asserted
even then that the claim was too
far removed from slavery. Wood’s
sympathizers were appalled that
she had received so little for her
suffering.
Yet by the time Wood died in
1912, the case was lost to history,
gathering dust in an archive
somewhere, until almost 150
years later when McDaniel stum-
bled upon it.
‘Take a look at this’
In 2014, McDaniel was re-
searching a book about enslaved
people who had been forcibly
taken to Texas during the Civil
War. He mentioned to a colleague
at a conference how challenging
it was to find stories of individual
“refugeed” enslaved people. A few
days later, the colleague wrote to
McDaniel.
“You should take a look at this,”
he said. He attached a copy of an
1879 story in the Ripley Bee based
on interviews between Wood and
an unnamed writer.
McDaniel soon discovered an
even earlier article about Wood in
the Cincinnati Commercial. It
was written by Lafcadio Hearn, a
scrappy young reporter of Greek-
Irish descent with a blind left eye
and an ear for the offbeat. (Later
he would move to Japan as a
correspondent and become a cel-
ebrated writer as a Japanese citi-
zen with a new name, Koizumi
Yakumo.)
Wood had been embroiled in
litigation with Ward for six years
with no end in sight when in 1876
Hearn encountered her, by then
apparently in her late 50s, living
in a “quaint little frame building”
near the Ohio River.
Hearn, a White man who had
at one point been married to a
former enslaved woman, listened
as Wood shared her story of slav-
ery and freedom, slavery and free-
dom.
In the fall of 2015, after a
despairing search by McDaniel,
the director of the National Ar-
chives branch in Chicago finally
turned up a weathered file bear-
ing Wood’s Ohio federal court
case number, 1431.
“I knew this was the story that
needed my attention,” McDaniel,
now 41, said, given the debate
that had begun roiling the coun-
try about whether to pay repara-
tions to the descendants of the
enslaved.
He found a 1948 article in the
Chicago Tribune about Wood’s
son, Arthur Simms, who had had
a long career as a lawyer in the
city before dying in 1951 at age 95.
McDaniel began to look for
Wood’s descendants, running
into a wall of obituaries before he
came upon Winona Adkins,
Simms’s great-granddaughter
and a computer systems adminis-
trator in Oakland, Calif.
When the professor finally
reached Adkins in early 2016, the
two corresponded by email for
months before McDaniel flew out
to Oakland to pore over old family
photographs with Adkins, then in
her early 70s, and her husband,
Bill Spight.
Adkins shared with McDaniel
memories of living with her great-
grandfather in his tall, rectangu-
lar brick house on South Wabash
Avenue in Chicago. Simms had
been a formal, rather taciturn
man who dressed in a three-piece
suit long after retiring and
preached discipline, she said. He
also took no guff, even at one
point, according to family lore,
allowing one of his grandsons to
fester in jail to teach him a lesson
instead of bailing him out.
Yet Adkins had no idea Simms
had been born into slavery. Per-
haps he was ashamed or the
memories were too traumatic;
perhaps he had been too bent on
making a livelihood.
McDaniel was awestruck by
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their conversation. “Winona was

maybe 6 or 7 when Arthur Simms
died, just one generation re-
moved,” he said. “It’s an indica-
tion of how close in time this
history is to all of us.”
A legacy discovered
In 2018, David Blackman was
still living with his daughter Dan-
ielle in Pensacola. Danielle had
won her disability case, and now
he had the time to explore his
family’s history.
He called his first cousin Win-
ona Adkins, whose mother had
been a librarian, figuring she
would have family photographs
to share. Spight answered the
phone and told David that his
wife had died earlier that year of
pancreatic cancer. Then he told
David something else: Adkins
had been in touch with a histo-
rian who was writing a book
about Henrietta Wood. David in-
stantly thought of the name on
the 1866 contract and emailed a
photo of it to McDaniel.
“Whether we realize it
or not, every little
decision our ancestors
made charted
a path for us.”
Nick Sheedy, lead genealogist on the
PBS series “Finding Your Roots”
McDaniel had not seen the
contract before and rushed to
incorporate it into his book. For
his part, David’s mind reeled as he
learned Wood’s life story.
Suddenly, the little that David
knew about his family’s history
began to make deeper sense.
“Whether we realize it or not,
every little decision our ancestors
made charted a path for us as
their descendants,” said Nick
Sheedy, lead genealogist on the
PBS series “Finding Your Roots.”
“And the decisions we make today
affect the people who come after
us. History isn’t some static set of
facts. . . . We are connected to
history today.”
The great-grandfather David
had known simply as a lawyer
was one of the first African Amer-
icans to graduate from what is
now Northwestern University’s
law school, in 1889. David can’t
think of anyone in the family who
hasn’t gone to college. The family
is full of professionals, in medi-
cine, law, social work, informa-
tion technology, school adminis-
tration.
After Simms bought the house
on South Wabash Avenue, he pur-
chased two more. Where did the
money for his tuition and home
down payment come from? Mc-
Daniel surmised the seed money
for Simms’s prosperity came from
the restitution Henrietta Wood
had won in court.
Then there was the violin that
Simms had bought for his son,
Arthur Jr., and the music lessons
that came with it, symbols of the
elder Arthur’s ascent into the
middle class. Arthur Jr.’s children
and their children, too, would all
take up instruments, with one of
David’s uncles, William Adkins,
making his career as a jazz saxo-
phonist who toured and recorded
with Count Basie. David plays the
guitar; Winona loved the piano.
Wood’s descendants shared a
sense of thrift, self-discipline and
the belief that hard work even-
tually would bring reward. These
qualities had been embodied in
David’s mother, Mary Blackman,
the daughter of Simms’s daugh-
ter, Neata.
Mary, who worked for the Chi-
cago Housing Authority, was an
accomplished pianist and violin-
ist who sang in the choir at
church. On Sunday mornings, she
would make delectably flaky bis-
cuits, and David’s friends would
come to services with the family
just to get a taste. David remem-
bers Mary’s close attention to her
children as a single mother, espe-
cially when they misbehaved.
Like Simms Sr., she took no guff.
“You didn’t mess with her if you
wanted to keep your scalp,” said
David, now a bespectacled 69-
year-old with a full gray beard.
Mary’s children were expected
to work, and as a teen, David got a
job at the public library. “We were
a ‘be all you can be’ family,” he
said.
The job kept him out of trouble
as the character of the Southside
neighborhood where Mary had
bought a house in the late 1950s
began to change. Even as he plot-
ted his comings and goings to
avoid rival gangs, David said his
life at home with Mary and his
siblings remained a rock.
“We were doing better than
everyone around us,” David said.
“When I look back now, I think
that was part of the legacy. If
Henrietta Wood hadn’t sued for
what they did to her,” if she hadn’t
been the kind of person to sue, he
Zebulon Ward, shown in a portrait by an unknown artist, was one
of the men who in 1853 abducted Henrietta Wood, then a free
woman, and returned her to enslavement. At the time, Ward was a
deputy sheriff in Covington, Ky.
said, “things probably would have
turned out very differently.”
After Mary’s children were
grown, she earned her under-
graduate degree and then a mas-
ter’s degree from Chicago State
University. On graduation day in
1981, Mary posed for a photo-
graph in her cap and gown with
David, who had just earned his
undergraduate degree that day
after serving in the Vietnam War.
Mary’s sister, Thyrza, also re-
ceived her diploma on the same
day.
Danielle Blackman grew up
looking at that photograph in
their Pensacola home. “There
wasn’t a point in my life where I
thought about not going to col-
lege,” Danielle, 34, said. “When
you see a picture like that, there’s
just no excuse, is there?”
Like her father, Danielle de-
voured McDaniel’s book. She was
struck by Wood’s moxie in pursu-
ing her claim, unbroken and un-
bowed. She imagines her great-
great-grandfather’s legal career
may have been inspired by the
lawsuit his mother won just as he
entered manhood.
COURTESY OF THE ARKANSAS STATE ARCHIVES
The family’s financial acumen,
which emphasized taking care of
essentials and savings before buy-
ing luxuries, flew in the face of the
“disposable essence” of American
culture, she said. Her grandmoth-
er Mary was loath to throw away
anything that had some use left.
She taught Danielle how to make
and do things for herself, hover-
ing as Danielle practiced sewing
on a button. While far from
wealthy, “my family didn’t squan-
der what they had.”
Wood’s descendants, Danielle
said, weathered the racial dis-
crimination they encountered
with a steely resolve that “we
were going to find a way or invent
a way to make it work, even if we
had to wait it out.”
What might she say to her
great-great-great-grandmother,
who had waited 26 long years to
receive a measure of justice, if she
were alive today?
“I would tell her,” she said, “it
was worth it.”
sydney.trent@washpost.com
Magda Jean-Louis contributed to this
report.
Boeing fined $5.4 million
for not following safety pact
BY I AN D UNCAN
The Federal Aviation Adminis-
tration announced a $5.4 million
fine Thursday against Boeing,
saying the jet maker did not live
up to the terms of a legal agree-
ment designed to force the com-
pany to overhaul its safety cul-
ture.
The agency said Boeing also
agreed to pay $1.2 million to re-
solve a pair of cases in which the
FAA alleged managers had put
improper pressure on employees
assigned to conduct safety work
on behalf of the government.
“I have reiterated to Boeing’s
leadership time and again that
the company must prioritize safe-
ty and regulatory compliance,
and that the FAA will always put
safety first in all its decisions,”
FAA Administrator Steve Dickson
said in a statement.
Boeing said in a statement the
fine was a fair resolution to the
legal agreement, which expired in
December.
“Boeing is committed to de-
signing and building the safest
products and to fostering an envi-
ronment where teammates can
perform work fully consistent
with our values of collaborating
with humility, inclusion and
transparency,” the company said.
Boeing and the FAA agreed to
the five-year settlement in 2015,
and the company paid an initial
penalty of $12 million. The agree-
ment was an unprecedented ef-
fort to try to resolve numerous
safety concerns regulators had
about Boeing. The financial pen-
alty was modest, but the agree-
ment required the company to
overhaul its corporate culture
and exceed federal safety require-
ments.
The FAA said Thursday it was
imposing additional penalties be-
cause Boeing missed some targets
set out in the settlement agree-
ment and because some of the
company’s managers didn’t do
enough to prioritize complying
with federal rules.
In a letter to Boeing, FAA law-
yer Mark W. Bury said the compa-
ny had not met its obligations in
half of the 10 pending terms of the
settlement. In some cases, Bury
wrote, “Boeing’s performance re-
gressed, despite planned and im-
plemented corrective actions and
cure plans.”
The letter does not spell out the
shortcomings in detail.
The fines were announced a
day after the Transportation De-
partment’s internal watchdog re-
leased a report concluding the
FAA still needed to do more to
hold Boeing accountable in the
wake of two deadly crashes in-
volving 737 Max airliners. The jets
were grounded worldwide for al-
most two years while Boeing
worked on safety fixes.
While the 2015 agreement rep-
resented a previous effort to hold
Boeing accountable, the relation-
ship between the company and
the FAA came under fresh scruti-
ny after the crashes. The Justice
Department concluded that two
Boeing employees defrauded the
government by withholding de-
tails from regulators about a soft-
ware system involved in the
crashes. That probe ended in a
criminal charge and a $2.5 billion
settlement, which included a
$244 million fine.
Other investigators have found
the FAA’s oversight of the compa-
ny was fragmented, allowing po-
tential safety risks to escape prop-
er scrutiny.
While the Justice Department
laid a heavier financial penalty
against Boeing, it is the FAA’s job
to ensure the company prioritizes
safety and complies with federal
rules. The agency said in a state-
ment that it planned to continue
that mission, implementing a
new law Congress passed in De-
cember designed to toughen over-
sight of aviation manufacturers.
Wednesday’s watchdog report
set out 14 recommendations for
how the FAA could improve its
review of modifications to exist-
ing aircraft designs and oversee a
vast team of Boeing engineers
who work for the government
under a system called Organiza-
tion Designation Authorization.
It was that system that was the
subject of the two enforcement
cases for which Boeing will pay
the $1.2 million. The cases in-
volved the 787 Dreamliner.
The FAA accused at least four
Boeing managers of subjecting
safety engineers to “undue pres-
sure.”
ian.duncan@washpost.com

A Conversation with Christiane Amanpour,

Jeff Kaufman & Jason Rezaian

Monday, March 1
3:30pm ET / 12:30pm PT / 8:30pm GMT

CNN international anchor Christiane Amanpour,

filmmaker Jeff Kaufman and Washington Post journalist
Jason Rezaian discuss the new documentary “NASRIN,”
a powerful portrait of imprisoned human rights activist
Nasrin Sotoudeh and Iran’s women’s rights movement.

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BY R ICK N OACK
mulhouse, france — One year
after an evangelical megachurch
became one of France’s first
known coronavirus clusters, 600
of its members gathered for an
indoor worship service Sunday,
singing, praying and mourning
dozens of friends they lost.
As ventilation systems rum-
bled in the back of the 75,000-
square-foot church, maskless
singers and musicians onstage
led the congregation in a refrain
about the glories of God.
The audience wore masks. The
first rows were filled with elderly
people who had arrived with the
help of canes and walkers. They
remained seated as hundreds of
church members behind them
rose from their chairs, raising
their arms and singing along.
But when pastor Samuel Peter-
schmitt took the stage, the mood
quickly turned somber. “Who, on
February 21st, could have imag-
ined what we were going to face?”
he said.
On Feb. 21, 2020, Christian
Open Door church celebrated the
end of an annual week-long
prayer meeting that a local health
official would later call “a kind of
atomic bomb.” It was one of
Europe’s first mass-spreading
events, linked to more than 2,500
cases in places as far away as
Burkina Faso in West Africa and
Guyana in South America. Health
Minister Olivier Véran blamed
the church, in this town in east-
ern France, for seeding the coun-
try’s first wave, which resulted in
30,000 deaths — more than three
times as many as in neighboring
Germany.
“The tipping point was the
evangelical gathering in Mul-
house,” Véran told France’s Jour-
nal du Dimanche newspaper in
late March. “The epidemic spread
across the country from the gath-
ering.”
The church remains a divisive
symbol for failures in France’s
early response to the coronavirus
pandemic, and it is now once
again facing questions over the
safety of its services, as more-
transmissible variants that could
render current health measures
less effective spread in the region.
But researchers have come to a
more nuanced conclusion about
the Mulhouse church’s role last
year. Although no one disputes
that the February gathering ac-
celerated the outbreak, the virus
was probably circulating in the
region, Alsace, weeks before the
prayer meeting began and
months before the French gov-
ernment banned events in
March.
“France was not ready,” said
Vincent Breton, who led a peer-
reviewed study on the event and
says the outbreak was already in
motion before the church gather-
ing. “Everybody was blind.”
‘We had never seen
something like this’
The novel coronavirus was
dominating headlines by mid-
February, but France had con-
firmed only a handful of cases —
none of them in Alsace. French
officials were not signaling any
urgency to enforce social distanc-
ing or cancel events, and French
President Emmanuel Macron
was pushing ahead with his nor-
mal schedule.
The same week Mulhouse’s
Open Door church hosted its
annual gathering, Macron visited
INDIA
New regulations
target online content
India on Thursday rolled out
new regulations for social media
companies and digital streaming
websites to make them more
accountable for the online
content shared on their
platforms, giving the government
more power to police it.
The Information Technology
Ministry said the new regulations
would require social media
platforms to swiftly erase content
that authorities deem unlawful.
The regulations include a strict
oversight mechanism that would
allow the government to ban
content affecting “the sovereignty
and integrity of India.”
The regulations would also
require social media companies
to assist investigations by India’s
law enforcement agencies. They
were announced as debate swirls
Megachurch at center of outbreak
in France opens its doors again
TOP: Members of the congregation gather Sunday at Christian Open Door church in Mulhouse, in eastern France. The service drew
600 people, but 4,000 others watched a live stream on Facebook and YouTube. ABOVE FROM LEFT: Pastor Samuel Peterschmitt
sings. A Communion kit devised for use during the coronavirus pandemic. A woman stands during the final words of the service.
a nearby police station. Days ear-
lier, a home renovation and con-
struction fair in the area had
drawn more than 20,000 visitors.
In Mulhouse, festivities at
Open Door got underway as
planned.
“The church was full of people
— about 2,000 every day — with
moments of prayer where we
were all side by side, holding
hands,” recalled Christian Gag-
nieux, 65, who joined the crowd
that week. “There was no protec-
tion.”
One week after the gathering,
about 600 of the 2,000 regulars
were missing from church. “We
had never seen something like
this,” recalled Peterschmitt.
In Gagnieux’s family, 25 people
fell sick, including his wife, who
developed serious symptoms.
Soon, emergency hotline oper-
ators in the region were inundat-
ed with calls from churchgoers.
Among those admitted to the
over free speech and the
suspension by Twitter of some
Indian accounts after regulators
ordered them to be blocked.
The regulations will require
social media companies to
remove illegal content as quickly
as possible, but within no more
than 36 hours after they receive a
government or legal order.
The new rules also require
social media platforms to appoint
what the government calls chief
compliance and grievance
officers to handle complaints
from law enforcement agencies.
“The government welcomes
criticism of the government and
the right to dissent, but it is very
important that the users must be
given a forum to raise their
grievances against the abuse and
misuse of social media,”
Information Technology Minister
Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
The new regulations are to
take effect within three months.
They also will apply to digital
EZ RE
The World
hospital was Peterschmitt, who
narrowly survived. While receiv-
ing oxygen support, he stayed in
touch with other church officials.
“Every day I received texts saying:
Gerard is dead. Bernard is dead,”
he recalled.
In all, about 100 members of
the church were hospitalized and
more than 30 died.
A national backlash
In an open letter, a group of
evangelical leaders rallied behind
the church, writing that the same
“could have happened at any
church, any gathering, any con-
ference.”
But across France, accusations
of recklessness mounted, and
even within the Open Door com-
munity, some appeared to have
regrets. “Apologies for having tak-
en this crisis lightly. I’d like to ask
for forgiveness,” one of its pas-
tors, Thiebault Geyer, said in a
live broadcast on March 17, ap-
DI GEST
streaming platforms.
— Associated Press
MYANMAR
Supporters of military
attack coup protesters
Supporters of Myanmar’s junta
attacked people protesting the
military government that took
power in a coup, using slingshots,
iron rods and knives Thursday to
injure several demonstrators.
The violence complicates an
already intractable standoff
between the military and a
protest movement that has been
staging large rallies daily to
demand that Aung San Suu Kyi’s
elected government be restored
to power. She and other
politicians were ousted and
arrested Feb. 1 in a takeover that
reversed years of slow progress
toward democracy.
In response, several Western
countries have imposed or
PHOTOS BY CHLOE SHARROCK FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
pearing to hold back tears as he
blamed his “selfishness.”
One year on, the church com-
munity has embraced a different
conclusion, arguing that it pre-
vented worse from happening.
“We were the victims,” said Peter-
schmitt.
Within days of the gathering,
Peterschmitt’s son — a doctor —
had sensed that the number of
people getting sick was abnor-
mal. About a week after the event,
he alerted local authorities —
triggering a quick chain of reac-
tions in France and other coun-
tries to which some participants
had since returned.
“They played an important
role in informing the authorities,”
said Breton, the researcher, add-
ing that the church should not
“be blamed.”
The study’s conclusion has re-
inforced a feeling among the
church community that it was a
“scapegoat,” according to Peter-
threatened sanctions on the
military. On Thursday, Britain
announced further measures
against members of the junta.
Amid the international
outrage, Facebook announced it
would ban all accounts linked to
the military as well as ads from
military-controlled companies.
On Thursday, tensions
escalated on the streets between
protesters and supporters of the
Myanmar military. Photos and
videos posted on social media
showed groups attacking people
in downtown Yangon as police
stood by without intervening.
The number of injured people
and their condition was not clear.
Supporters of the military have
gathered in the streets before,
especially in the days
immediately before and after the
coup, but had not used violence
so openly.
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schmitt. “They treated us as if we
had created covid,” he said.
“A lot of things were said that
hurt us,” agreed Gagnieux, stand-
ing in the church parking lot. The
area is separated from the neigh-
borhood by steel fences erected
before the pandemic, with the
potential for hate crimes in mind.
Peterschmitt said that reli-
gious communities — his own,
but also megachurches in South
Korea and the United States —
were unfairly singled out as
spreaders of the virus.
Religious discrimination tied
to the pandemic has been a con-
cern for rights activists. In some
countries, authoritarian regimes
have used the coronavirus as a
pretext to put communities un-
der increased surveillance. In
others, rumors targeting minori-
ties have sparked violent attacks.
In France, the government
banned regular church services
during the two national lock-
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enclave. Natural gas currently
flowing through a pipeline in
Israel from the eastern
Mediterranean will be
transported via a new extension
into Gaza, the Qatari Foreign
Ministry said. Gaza has just one
power plant and struggles with
frequent electricity outages.
Deadly post-election protests
rock Niger: Supporters of the
losing presidential candidate in
Niger set buildings on fire,
burned tires and threw rocks at
police as the authorities
announced that two people had
been killed in post-election
protests this week. The election
commission declared ruling-
. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 , 2021
downs last year. When it lifted the
second lockdown in late Novem-
ber, the government initially im-
posed a maximum number of
30 participants. But religious or-
ganizations challenged that limit
— raising uncomfortable ques-
tions about discrimination in a
nation that considers itself to be
secular. The country’s high court
deemed the limit to be dispropor-
tionate to the risk and ordered a
review.
Now, France is in a less restric-
tive period. But where a nonreli-
gious indoor concert with 600
people could still land organizers
in prison, a concert during a
worship service of the same size
remains legal.
Concerns over new variants
Sunday’s service at Open Door
appeared to be in compliance
with all the rules.
Although there is no upper
limit on the number of attendees,
the government mandates some
degree of social distancing. So
chairs were kept empty — and
more than 4,000 people followed
the live stream on Facebook and
YouTube.
Members attending in person
received a miniature wine bottle
per household, instead of sharing
one Communion cup of wine, as
was common before the pandem-
ic.
The multiple singers onstage
stayed more than 10 feet from the
audience.
Whether those rules are suffi-
cient remains a subject of debate.
French churches haven’t been
linked to any coronavirus out-
breaks since last spring, accord-
ing to Breton.
But concerns over mega-
churches and smaller places of
worship as transmission hot
spots are based on a growing
body of scientific research, which
has prompted new scrutiny of
events such as the one held here
on Sunday.
Several studies have indepen-
dently found that singing poses
serious risks at indoor areas. At
least 30 people in a 41-member
choir in Spain tested positive for
the virus in September after a
rehearsal in which social distanc-
ing was observed and masks were
worn but windows were closed.
Adding to the concern in
France are the more-contagious
variants of the virus — which
weren’t a known issue when reli-
gious venues such as Mulhouse’s
Open Door were allowed to re-
sume their services.
France has seen a surge of the
variant first identified in Britain,
estimated to be 30 to 70 percent
more contagious and possibly
more deadly. Eastern France has
also been unsettled by the spread
of the variant first detected in
South Africa, which has shown
less responsiveness to vaccines in
preliminary research.
Overall, coronavirus cases in
France are ticking up, and the
country is now reporting more
new cases per capita than the
United States.
But even as France appears to
enter another dangerous phase of
the pandemic, Peterschmitt says
the lesson from last year’s out-
break should not be to ban indoor
worship services.
“Today, people die because
they no longer have a communi-
ty,” he said. “We cannot hold
hands, but we can see each other
and have connections.”
rick.noack@washpost.com
party candidate Mohamed
Bazoum the winner, but his rival,
Mahamane Ousmane, has alleged
fraud and claimed he won. Since
then two people have been killed
and 468 detained during protests
by Ousmane’s supporters in the
capital, the interior minister said.
8 found dead in boat adrift with
Rohingya refugees: India’s coast
guard found a boat adrift in the
Andaman Sea carrying scores of
Rohingya refugees, including
eight who had died, officials said.
The boat left Cox’s Bazar in
Bangladesh on Feb. 11 with 90
people on board and its engine
failed Feb. 15, a spokesman for
the Indian External Affairs
Ministry said. He said that 81
people were found alive on the
boat and that one was missing.
More than 1 million Rohingya
who fled an army crackdown in
Myanmar live in refugee camps in
Bangladesh.
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With pomp yet few details, Xi asserts China has eliminated severe poverty
Leader touts ‘splendid
miracle,’ but nation faces
a demographic crisis
BY L ILY K UO
taipei, taiwan — To great fan-
fare, Chinese leader Xi Jinping on
Thursday declared his country’s
“complete victory” over extreme
poverty.
In an hour-long speech deliv-
ered from the Great Hall of the
People in Beijing, Xi said the gov-
ernment under his leadership has
waged and won “a massive peo-
ple’s war against poverty,” lifting
100 million people out of destitu-
tion. The official news agency
Xinhua called the achievement
the “great leap of a millennium.”
“This is the glory and honor of
the Chinese people,” he said, be-
fore presenting medals to local
officials and residents deemed
“model fighters” in the govern-
ment campaign, which he called
“a splendid miracle shining in
history.”
Xi’s claim of eradicating pover-
ty comes as the coronavirus pan-
demic is set to push as many as
150 million people into extreme
poverty worldwide this year, ac-
cording to the World Bank, un-
derscoring how China has
emerged from the global crisis
relatively unscathed.
Yet the announcement, deliv-
ered with much bombast but few
details, also underlines China’s
looming demographic crisis as its
working-age population shrinks
and businesses and companies
struggle amid a stalled economic
recovery.
Over the last eight years since
Xi became head of the ruling
Communist Party, the govern-
ment has spent as much as 1.6 tril-
lion yuan ($248 billion) on pover-
ty alleviation — as local officials
went door to door to identify
impoverished households, deliv-
ering assistance from loans to
farm animals. Experts say the
policy is key to Xi’s legacy as he
works to cement his position as
the country’s most powerful lead-
er since Mao Zedong, China’s par-
amount leader and founding fa-
ther of the Chinese Communist
Party.
“Xi Jinping claimed victory in
the war against the coronavirus
and now he is claiming victory in
campaign.
On Wednesday, the official Peo-
ple’s Daily included a three-page
spread on Xi’s leadership in the
fight that lifted “all rural people”
and “all poor counties” out of
poverty. The article declared,
“The problem of absolute poverty
that has plagued us for thousands
of years has come to an end.”
But neither Xi nor state media
explained how the figures were
calculated and what threshold
was used, prompting questions
about the metrics. In 2019, Chi-
na’s statistics bureau defined ru-
ral poverty as below per capita
annual income of 2,300 yuan
($356). Previous officials have de-
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
fined the poverty line as less than
Villagers in Liuzhou in southern China watch Xi Jinping’s poverty 4,000 yuan ($620) a year, or $1.69
address Thursday, which in some quarters was met with derision. a day — less than the World Bank’s
Xi is eager to cement his legacy as comparable to Mao Zedong’s. threshold of $1.90 a day and well
below the $5.50 a day that econo-
the war against poverty. This On Thursday, as Xi spoke, a mists recommend for upper-mid-
gives Xi the ability the claim victo- giant banner covering the walls of dle-income countries.
ries in two major challenges fac- the Great Hall called for the coun- While China’s economy is ex-
ing China. This is crucial if you are try to unite around Xi “as the pected to grow about 8 percent
trying to position yourself as a core” and “realize the Chinese this year, consumer spending has
leader akin to Mao,” said Carl dream of the great rejuvenation not fully recovered, and analysts
Minzner, a professor at Fordham of the Chinese nation.” A group of believe unemployment rates are
Law School and author of “End of ethnic minorities from across the higher than officials have report-
an Era: How China’s Authoritari- country sang, “Without the Com- ed. College graduates are also ex-
an Revival Is Undermining Its munist Party, there would be no pected to struggle to find jobs this
Rise.” new China,” in a tribute to Xi’s year, and falling birthrates threat-
en to undermine growth.
Other analysts say that many
residents are struggling, even
above the poverty line. In com-
ments that spurred a national
debate, Chinese Premier Li Keq-
iang said last year that about
600 million Chinese citizens, al-
most 40 percent of the country,
live on 1,000 yuan ($155) a month.
On Thursday, the country’s
poverty alleviation campaign
dominated headlines posted on
social media, with some discus-
sions censored after Internet us-
ers questioned the figures.
“Can someone tell me what the
official standard is for eliminat-
ing poverty? Why can I still see
people on the street begging?”
one asked on the microblog Wei-
bo. Another joked, “China has
eliminated absolute poverty.
That’s right. Everyone is just rela-
tively poor.”
Others gibed that they had not
been included in the statistics.
“I’m still so poor,” one user com-
mented. Another said: “Perhaps
the motherland forgot to count
me.”
lily.kuo@washpost.com
Pei Lin Wu in Kaohsiung, Taiwan,
contributed to this report.

India and Pakistan announce cease-fire for the first time in nearly 20 years
BY J OANNA S LATER
new delhi — India and Pakistan
announced Thursday that their
armed forces would cease firing
across their shared border, the
first such step since 2003 and a
potentially significant move
toward reducing tensions be-
tween the two rivals.
Military officials in the two
countries released a joint state-
ment saying they had agreed to a
cease-fire that went into effect at
midnight, including along the un-
official frontier in the disputed
Himalayan region of Kashmir.
Indian and Pakistani troops
regularly exchange artillery and
small-arms fire in the region, a
situation that analysts have de-
scribed as a war by other means.
The low-grade conflict is deadly,
with dozens of villagers and mili-
tary personnel killed annually in
recent years.
India accuses Pakistan of stok-
ing a three-decade-old insurgen-
cy against Indian rule in Kashmir
by sending fighters and arms
across the frontier. Pakistan de-
nies the accusations.
Relations between the two nu-
clear-armed neighbors have been
frosty since 2019, when India con-
ducted an airstrike in Pakistan
after a terrorist attack killed 40
Indian troops in Kashmir. The
two countries then engaged in
their first aerial dogfight in near-
ly 50 years. Months later, India
revoked Kashmir’s autonomy,
further angering Pakistan.
Since then, cross-border firing
has intensified. There were more
than 5,000 such incidents in
2020, according to Indian govern-
ment data, the highest figure
since 2002.
“You’re looking at a lot of loss of
life, with villagers getting killed
on both sides,” said Happymon
Jacob, a professor of internation-
al studies and author of a book on
clashes between India and Paki-
stan in Kashmir.
The new agreement, if effec-
tive, would be “pathbreaking,” Ja-
cob said. It will reduce violence
and allow both countries to tell
the international community that
they are taking steps to stabilize
Kashmir, he said.
Near the highly militarized
frontier in Kashmir, the cease-fire
announcement was a source of
deep relief. Syed Ahmad Habib,
47, lives on the Indian side of the
line, but his home is so close to the
boundary that he can see houses
in Pakistani-controlled territory.
“Someone who has not seen
shells rain down cannot imagine
the kind of life we are living,” said
Habib, 47, who is from a village
called Mandhar. A childhood
friend died in shelling this year,
he said. “If it has stopped, I am
glad.”
This is a “very positive” move,
said Hasan Askari Rizvi, a secu-
rity analyst in Pakistan, who nev-
ertheless cautioned that it re-
mains unclear whether the agree-
ment will be implemented suc-
cessfully. If the firing ceases, Rizvi
said, it opens the door to other
confidence-building measures,
such as making it easier for peo-
ple and goods to travel between
India and Pakistan.
In theory, a cease-fire agree-
ment already exists between the
two countries, which share both
an international border and a
460-mile unofficial frontier in
Kashmir known as the Line of
Control.
The cease-fire understanding
was announced in 2003, and for
the next several years the Line of
Control was relatively quiet. But
after terrorists killed more than
160 people in Mumbai in 2008 —
an attack carried out by a Paki-
stan-based militant group — inci-
dents of cross-border firing began
to increase. Since 2014, they have
soared tenfold, according to offi-
cial Indian data.
Indian officials have accused
Pakistan of using the shelling to
give cover to militants crossing
into Indian-controlled territory, a
charge that Pakistan denies.
Commanders on both sides have
the autonomy to decide when to
fire, Jacob said.
Thursday’s announcement
comes as India continues to grap-
ple with tensions on a different
border — the one to the northeast,
shared with China. India and
China recently disengaged their
troops from one sensitive area
after a months-long standoff that
began with a deadly clash in June.
A period of calm on the border
between India and Pakistan could
serve both countries’ interests,
analysts said. “It’s an important
development,” said Arvind Gupta,
a former deputy national security
adviser in India. “Whether it is
tactical or something with long-
term consequences remains to be
seen.”
Bashir Ahmad Wathloo, 45,
lives near the town of Uri on the
Indian side of the Line of Control.
His aunt was killed three years
ago when she was unable to flee
falling shells with the rest of the
family.
On Thursday, Wathloo was sit-
ting with friends in front of a
store, an activity he has avoided
for more than a year after shelling
intensified. The mood was festive.
It felt good to be outside without
fearing for one’s life, he said.
joanna.slater@washpost.com
Shams Irfan in Hyderabad, India, and
Shaiq Hussain in Islamabad,
Pakistan, contributed to this report.

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country that closed buildings in
mid-March in response to the cor-
onavirus pandemic handled the
transition to remote learning with
varying levels of success. During
the disruption, schools lost track
of students. Many students who
were present in the classroom in
early March could not be found
online. And others who showed
up in the spring haven’t been seen
since.
Even before the pandemic, dis-
tricts had to track down children
who had stopped showing up to
school or had failed to appear for a
new school year. They have strong
incentives to find them; school
funding is often allocated on a
per-pupil basis. Sometimes it
turns out students have moved
and enrolled in other districts.
Other times they can’t be found
and are removed from the rolls.
But this year, students have dis-
appeared from classes in unprec-
edented numbers, forcing dis-
tricts to rethink their approach to
those who stop showing up. Many
districts, cognizant of the damage
that lost school time can cause,
have employed extraordinary ef-
forts to track down students to
ensure that they are safe and have
devices to learn. Others, like De-
troit and Miami, have kept stu-
dents on rosters even after they
failed to show for an entire month.
North Dakota began tracking at-
tendance for all schools on a daily
basis, and several schools used
coronavirus aid to hire family liai-
sons to find missing students.
Several states have seen precip-
itous drops in public school en-
rollment this school year, and
many have seen a rise in the num-
ber of students enrolled in private
schools or being home-schooled.
In addition, the children who
would have started preschool or
kindergarten in the fall are stay-
ing home in droves, as those
grades are not mandatory in most
states. But there’s another catego-
ry of students: those who were
supposed to be in classes this year
but still have not appeared.
In North Carolina, a state edu-
cation official told state lawmak-
ers in December that more than
10,000 students had not been ac-
counted for. New Mexico could
not account for more than 12,000
students at the start of the school
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superintendent, visit a student’s home last fall. Chapman made two dozen stops in one day to reach children who had missed classes.
With more students unaccounted for,
districts step up e≠orts to find them
year, children who were enrolled
before the pandemic but never
showed up in the fall. This month,
the state’s education department
reported that more than 2,700
students were still missing.
Katarina Sandoval, New Mexi-
co’s deputy secretary of academic
engagement and student success,
said that in previous years, the
number of students who failed to
come to school was so small that
they did not even have a name for
them. Many of them were high
school dropouts.
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But this year, the missing stu-
dents come from all grades. The
state organized an effort to reach
out to families and enlisted the
help of social service agencies to
support those families who strug-
gled to get their children to
school.
A lot of these discrepancies
stem from poor record-keeping
systems. In many states, districts
collect attendance individually
and do not have a good way of
sharing with one another. So a
student who merely transferred
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may be marked as missing, and a
student who cannot be found
could be presumed to be in an-
other district.
Detroit, which opened build-
ings in the fall for optional in-per-
son instruction, had more than
900 students who did not enroll
until after October, weeks into the
school year. The district, which
has long struggled with chronic
absenteeism, launched an aggres-
sive attendance initiative in 2019
backed by private foundations
that allowed it to hire attendance
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officers for every school to keep
tabs on children who did not show
up.
During the pandemic, the dis-
trict capitalized on the initiative,
launching three door-to-door
campaigns that sent staff and par-
ent volunteers to the homes of
students who have not been show-
ing up to classes — either virtually
or in person. In late January, the
district was in the midst of its
third campaign, with volunteers
hitting the streets in 26-degree
weather to check on students.
. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 , 2021
When school districts reach out
to families, they often do so
through text messages, robocalls,
emails, Facebook posts and snail
mail. It’s communication that re-
quires families to have a working
cellphone, Internet access and a
fixed address. That means fami-
lies who move frequently, change
cellphone numbers or do not
speak English can be left out of the
loop and can be difficult to find.
Sacramento City Unified
School District learned that les-
son the hard way, when it lost
touch with more than 1,600 stu-
dents after closing in mid-March.
None of them had responded to
check-in calls from educators, and
none of them logged on when
virtual classes started a month
later.
The district jumped into ac-
tion, dispatching staff members to
students’ homes and setting up a
food truck in the middle of large
apartment complexes to draw out
families and their children. If they
found a student, they collected
current contact information and
ensured that the student had what
was needed to log on. When that
did not work, the district sought
addresses from the state’s food
stamp program and from social
service agencies. About three-
quarters of the district’s school-
children qualify for low-cost
health insurance, food stamps or
other social service programs.
By summer, just 845 students
were missing. And by the start of
the school year, only nine re-
mained unreachable.
It is deeply worrisome for edu-
cators when they cannot account
for where a young person is, or
whether they are learning and
safe. When school is in session
and classes are face to face, teach-
ers are better able to detect wheth-
er a schoolchild is being abused or
neglected. Those check-ins are
tougher when school is closed and
children are no longer showing up
for face-to-face instruction. Edu-
cators accounted for about a fifth
of child abuse reports in 2018,
according to federal data.
“There’s just a whole layer of
kids who have just disappeared,”
said Hailly T.N. Korman of the
think tank Bellwether Education
Partners, who is studying what
she calls “the attendance crisis.”
She is particularly concerned
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the coronavirus pandemic

STUDENTS FROM A14 sion and eviction. She registered

her school-age children, 5-year-
about children who come from old Emiliana and 6-year-old Emil-
low-income households, Eng- io, for face-to-face classes in the
lish-language learners, homeless fall, but they went only sporadi-
students and migrant students, cally because she struggled to find
whose families may have been hit them transportation. Things got
especially hard by the economic worse when schools shut down in
downturn: “It’s been true for mid-November.
generations . . . that every one of The children had to share a
society’s unmet needs of children loaner device, and then she could
shows up at a classroom door. not afford Internet. Because class-
“Now there’s no classroom door es are still remote, the children
to show up at.” have not attended since early De-
“School has historically been cember.
the daily wellness check for a lot of Not all families have “some-
kids,” Korman said. “They don’t body to lean on,” Castigliano said.
have that anymore.” On that Friday, some of the
Like cities across the country, families that Chapman encoun-
Detroit shut down its schools in tered had easily resolvable issues
mid-March as the pandemic tore that had kept students from virtu-
through the community. al classrooms. One high school
One of its victims was 5-year- student had missed Oct. 7 because
old Skylar Herbert, the daughter she had lost her laptop charger —
of a police officer and a firefighter, but later recovered it. A boy’s
and the first child to die of covid- mother explained that he could
19 in Michigan. Shortly thereafter, not log on that day because of an
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) enrollment issue at the school.
formed a task force to examine the Many times, Chapman said, stu-
pandemic’s lopsided effects on dents have not logged on because
communities of color. She dedi- neither they nor their parents
cated the task force to Skylar, who could figure out how. In those
was Black. cases, he and the other staff dis-
In the fall, the district reopened patched to homes become de facto
school buildings but gave parents IT specialists.
the option of sending their chil- But other times, the issues are
dren back or keeping them home greater. That same week, Chap-
and having them learn online. man had arrived at a home where
PHOTOS BY NICK HAGEN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
About a quarter of parents said a cord snaked out the front door to
they would send their children an idling car. The family’s power
back. The rest either could not be ABOVE: Sharlonda Buckman had been cut, and they were using
reached or opted for virtual learn- leads a meeting in October of electricity drawn from the car for
ing. those canvassing at the homes the house. It was not uncommon,
Last spring, after schools of Detroit students who missed Chapman said, to come across a
closed, the district endeavored to class. LEFT: Kenneth Chapman family whose children had
get a laptop with Internet embed- Sr. and Buckman speak with a stopped showing up because
ded out to every one of the dis- mother whose child lost track of there was no electricity in the
trict’s 50,000 students, raising their laptop charger and household.
$23 million in three weeks from couldn’t attend class. The most worrisome cases are
Detroit-based companies to fund still the ones where a knock on the
the effort. They distributed more that families had devices and door yields no answer, or when the
than 45,000. But many students knew about when the district address belongs to an abandoned
never showed up to pick up a would open virtually. A month home.
device — including nearly every into the school year last fall, 8,000 The attendance crisis will have
child who remained missing deep students were still missing. About lifelong consequences for the stu-
into the school year. About 70 per- 5,000 of them joined the school dents who are missing weeks or
cent of the students on that list year late. months of classes or who decide to
were also considered chronically “We’ve always had issues with leave school altogether.
absent before the pandemic. absenteeism because of the im- “They might not come back at
Nikolai Vitti, the superinten- pact of poverty,” Vitti said. “But all. They might not finish high
dent of Detroit Public Schools, nothing like this.” school,” said Korman, the re-
said the number of students miss- That was true for Chena Cas- searcher. “They will struggle in
ing from classrooms is staggering. tigliano, who has been raising the workforce. It will be difficult
In the spring, only 10 percent of three young children on her own for them when they raise their
students were engaged with virtu- since her husband, a drywall in- own children.”
al learning, prompting the district staller, was arrested and sent back “We’re going to see the conse-
to launch an aggressive campaign to his native Mexico last year. quences of this for generations.”
of door-to-door visits to ensure Then came postpartum depres- moriah.balingit@washpost.com

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Capitol Police chief warns of threat during Biden speech
BY K AROUN D EMIRJIAN
The acting chief of the U.S. Cap-
itol Police warned lawmakers
Thursday that militia members
involved in the Jan. 6 riot “want to
blow up the Capitol and kill as
many members as possible” dur-
ing President Biden’s first con-
gressional address.
The stark warning about an-
other potential threat to Congress
— which has not been corroborat-
ed by other law enforcement agen-
cies — comes as a date for Biden’s
first address on Capitol Hill has
not been set. New presidents typi-
cally deliver a speech to a joint
session of Congress in February.
Acting chief Yogananda D. Pitt-
man told lawmakers that there
was “a direct nexus” between the
threats and a Biden speech.
She cited that intelligence to
explain why National Guard
members who were deployed and
the tall security barriers that were
erected around the Capitol after
the insurrection have not yet been
removed.
“Based on that information, we
think that it’s prudent that Capitol
Police maintain its enhanced and
robust security posture until we
address those vulnerabilities go-
ing forward,” Pittman said in com-
ments Thursday before a House
Appropriations subcommittee.
It was not clear whether other
agencies have also identified
threats expected during Biden’s
first congressional address.
In a statement, the FBI said it is
“working with our partners to
gather and share intelligence re-
garding major events, including
the upcoming Presidential Ad-
dress to a Joint Session of Con-
gress.”
The bureau is regularly tipped
to online chatter about threats,
and officials have said it is difficult
to separate that which is aspira-
tional from that which poses real
concern.
In the run-up to Biden’s inaugu-
ration, for example, the FBI pri-
vately warned law enforcement
agencies that far-right extremists
had discussed posing as National
Guard members in Washington,
and that others have reviewed
maps of vulnerable spots in the
city. Officials took aggressive mea-
sures to secure the Capitol, and
ultimately the day passed without
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Acting Capitol Police chief Yogananda D. Pittman said that militia members “want to blow up the Capitol” during President Biden’s first
joint address to Congress and that intelligence on the threat is why security barriers around the Capitol have not been dismantled.
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Pittman, right, testified that “well in excess” of 10,000 people came
onto the Capitol grounds during the short-lived Jan. 6 insurrection.
Robert M. Gates
The former defense secretary discusses the U.S. relationship with
Russia and the foreign policy landscape of the new administration.
incident.
But officials are eager to show
they are taking threats seriously,
particularly because lawmakers
from both parties have criticized
the Capitol Police and the FBI for
not responding to indications of
possible violence before the Jan. 6
riot. An internal Capitol Police in-
telligence report three days before
the siege warned “Congress itself”
could be the target of violence, and
an FBI office in Virginia warned
one day before that demonstrators
were prepared for “war.”
Pittman insisted Thursday
there was “no credible threat” in
the available intelligence that riot-
ers would actually break into the
Capitol. As a result, she said, the
police “were not prepared” for the
demonstration to turn into an an-
gry mob.
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And she said that “well in ex-
cess” of 10,000 people came onto
the Capitol grounds during the
Jan. 6 insurrection, and that about
800 entered the building — the
first time an official has provided
an estimate of the size of the crowd
that broke through the Capitol’s
perimeter.
“To stop a mob of tens of thou-
sands requires more than a police
force, it requires physical infra-
structure or a regiment of sol-
diers,” Pittman said. “We know
that some of those temporary en-
hancements are not popular, but
these are necessary in the short
term.”
Lawmakers, especially those in
the GOP, are growing antsy over
the continued presence of soldiers
and barriers at the Capitol, which
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-
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Wash.), the top Republican on the
Appropriations subcommittee
hosting Thursday’s hearing, said
is costing $2 million per week to
maintain.
Rep. Mark Amodei (R-Nev.) de-
scribed the reinforcements as
“stark visual sadness” and likened
the current Capitol environment
to “working in a minimum secu-
rity prison.”
In the Senate, Rules Committee
ranking member Roy Blunt
(R-Mo.) also said Thursday that
“there are ways to achieve the
safety we need here without the
fortresslike sense at the Capitol
right now, and hopefully you get
there sooner rather than later.”
This was the first week that
current and former officials re-
sponsible for the response to the
short-lived insurrection testified
in public before congressional
committees, the opening acts of
what is likely to be a long-term
effort to document the failings
that led to the violence and avoid a
similar calamity in the future.
So far, those hearings have
failed to resolve even basic ques-
tions about what transpired, such
as when the Capitol Police chief
requested approval for backup
from the National Guard.
Former Capitol Police chief Ste-
ven A. Sund and former House
sergeant-at-arms Paul Irving, both
of whom resigned following the
riot, clashed over some details of
the timeline that day. Sund
claimed he had requested help
from the National Guard two days
before the riot and again as soon
as the pro-Trump demonstrators
broke through the outdoor secu-
rity perimeter, requesting the
Guard by 1:09 p.m. that day.
Irving told lawmakers he was
on the floor of the House at that
time and did not remember get-
ting a call from Sund until nearly
1:30 p.m., when Sund told him he
might be requesting the Guard be
activated.
On Thursday, Pittman partially
backed up Sund’s account, read-
ing from his cellphone records
that she said showed that he re-
peatedly contacted Irving, start-
ing at 12:58 p.m. that day.
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Matt Zapotosky, Mike DeBonis and
Ashley Parker contributed to this
report.
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Violence rattling Asian American communities across U.S.
ATTACKS FROM A1
2020. The New York Police De-
partment reported at least 28 hate
crimes that targeted Asian Ameri-
can victims last year, compared
with three the previous year. San
Francisco’s preliminary data
shows that nine hate crimes tar-
geted Asian Americans in 2020,
up from six the year before and
four in 2018.
Several viral videos of attacks
on Asian pedestrians this month
have heightened concerns: a Fili-
pino man slashed with a box cut-
ter on a New York City train; a
52-year-old woman shoved to the
ground in Flushing, Queens; a
woman punched in the face on a
New York subway platform; and a
Los Angeles man beaten with his
own cane at a bus stop.
It’s unclear whether the vio-
lence in each of those viral videos
was racially motivated, but the
incidents have left Asian Ameri-
cans feeling not only under attack
but also largely alone in address-
ing neighborhood crime, with
many of the assailants remaining
elusive. While some residents
have joined neighborhood pa-
trols, others are arming them-
selves for protection. And still
others have pushed for law en-
forcement to create task forces
and liaisons to better address
neighborhood concerns.
“People are fed up about not
being heard, not being seen and
waiting for help,” said Will Lex
Ham, an activist who has partici-
pated in the San Francisco China-
town street patrols and organized
rallies in New York. “We’re not
getting the allyship we need, the
resources we need. We have to
pick ourselves up by the boot-
straps.”
Public attention to attacks on
Asian Americans soared after 84-
year-old Vicha Ratanapakdee was
assaulted in San Francisco last
month. According to his son-in-
law Eric Lawson, he was on his
daily neighborhood walk and re-
covering from multiple heart sur-
geries when he was shoved so
violently that he later died.
“Thai grandpa,” as he was
known by community activists,
became a rallying cry for celebri-
ties and other Asian Americans
who added his face to their social
media profile pictures. His
daughter Amy Ratanapakdee be-
lieves it was a hate crime.
“It’s like a senseless act of vio-
lence and could happen to any
one of us,” she said, adding that
her own children have been called
racial epithets on the street dur-
ing the past year. “I want everyone
to know how my father died and
hope that in his memory, people
will join me to hope that justice
presides.”
A 19-year-old man has pleaded
not guilty to murder in Ratana-
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pakdee’s attack. And a suspect has
been arrested in the case of Noel
Quintana, the 61-year-old Filipino
man whose face was slashed on a
New York City subway train as he
traveled to work earlier this
month.
“Nobody came, nobody helped,
nobody made a video,” he said.
Quintana reported the crime to
police, and the suspect has been
charged with assault. But many
cases never get that far.
Victims from marginalized
communities can be reluctant to
engage with police because of cul-
tural differences, language barri-
ers or distrust. Even when they do
report, proving that they were
targeted because of their race is
difficult.
To fill in the data gap, some
Asian American organizations
are tracking these incidents on
their own. Stop AAPI Hate was
launched last March to collect
information on suspected cases of
racially motivated violence and
harassment. (AAPI stands for
Asian American Pacific Islander.)
It received more than 2,808 self-
reported incidents from across
the country by year’s end.
Of those incidents, 9 percent
were physical assaults and 71 per-
cent were verbal attacks. Among
the victims, most were women,
and about 126 reported being old-
er than 60.
“We were flooded immediately
with hundreds of incidents,” said
Russell Jeung, a professor of
Asian American studies at San
Francisco State University, who
helped launch the site. “We have
large numbers of elderly report-
ing that you wouldn’t think would
complain, but they knew racism
when they experienced it.”
Of the self-reported victims,
41 percent were Chinese, 15 per-
cent were Korean, 8 percent were
Vietnamese and 7 percent were
Filipino. States with higher Asian
populations report more inci-
dents, with California most repre-
sented followed by New York at
about 13 percent.
But some Asian communities
suspect that the rash of attacks is
even worse than the data sug-
gests. The tendency to under-
report is why Iona Cheng thinks
her community in Oakland has
become a target.
“They’re attacking Asian wom-
en, often for cultural reasons.
They don’t speak out. They don’t
press charges. They don’t speak
English well in some cases,” said
Cheng, who is Chinese American.
The 48-year-old cancer epi-
demiologist had just delivered a
Christmas gift in late December
when a group of preteens tackled
her to the ground, punched and
robbed her. Police believe the
same group stomped on an Asian
woman in her 60s later that night,
breaking her kneecap.
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“I can’t walk outside the door of
my house and feel safe,” said
Cheng, who added that someone
called her “coronavirus” while she
was jogging last March in Oak-
land. “I just feel like that was
taken from me.”
Gun ownership has become a
solution for some. David Liu,
owner of Arcadia Firearm and
Safety in the predominantly
Asian city of Arcadia, Calif., said
his 2020 sales soared four times
higher than in a typical year. Liu
said he saw an uptick in Asian
Americans interested in purchas-
ing firearms, but interest has been
skyrocketing among “basically
everybody.”
National gun sales are not
tracked by race or ethnicity, but in
a survey by the National Shooting
Sports Foundation last year, gun
retailers estimated a nearly
43 percent average increase in
sales to Asian customers in the
first half of 2020 — the smallest
jump among the four reported
racial or ethnic groups. By com-
parison, the survey estimated an
average sales increase of 52 per-
cent to White customers and
58 percent to Black customers.
San Francisco social worker
Jason Gee decided to buy a hand-
gun in the spring after a series of
incidents that included an as-
sault, a home invasion and the
breaking of his car windows. And
on his way to buy the gun, in the
parking lot, four White men
called him and his friend “the
coronavirus” and “chinks.”
While in line to buy the firearm,
Gee said, he noticed that most of
the customers were also Asian.
But he soon started to worry
that his purchase was “playing to
fear” and ultimately making his
community less safe, and decided
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Amy Ratanapakdee, still wearing
mourning black, holds the funeral portrait of her father, Vicha
Ratanapakdee, who was assaulted on this San Francisco driveway
last month during his morning walk. Iona Cheng stands near the
spot in Oakland, Calif., where she was mugged by three youths and
sustained injuries in December. Noel Quintana was left with scars
after being slashed on a New York subway train this month.
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to sell the firearm back.
“If you show up here . . . expect-
ing violence, that may put you in a
certain mind frame where you
may misread a situation and re-
spond to it with violence.”
Local leaders have made simi-
lar pleas, including Oakland Po-
lice Chief LeRonne Armstrong,
who expressed concern about ci-
vilian gun owners creating “unin-
tended victims.”
He held a news conference on
Feb. 16 after a Chinatown shop-
keeper was jailed for allegedly
firing his weapon at a man he
believed was robbing a woman on
the street. “We don’t want people
to fire weapons into our commu-
nity,” he said. “While we appreci-
ated people’s interest in keeping
our community safe, we want
them to observe and report.”
That sentiment makes San
Francisco gun owner Chris Cheng
furious. Cheng, who describes
himself as a Second Amendment
advocate, has owned a gun since
2008 and said friends and strang-
ers have been reaching out to him
about gun ownership in response
to the attacks.
“I think a lot of Asian Ameri-
cans are realizing that the police
can only do so much and that the
police are not always there to
protect us,” Cheng said. “They’re
only there to take the report.”
Some law enforcement agen-
cies have been trying to do more.
Police departments in San Fran-
cisco and New York City have set
up task forces to focus on the issue
and increased police presence in
predominantly Asian neighbor-
hoods.
The 25 detectives on the
NYPD’s all-Asian task force speak
11 languages among them. In July,
when an 89-year-old woman
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whose face had been slapped and
shirt set on fire didn’t initially
cooperate with the investigation,
Deputy Inspector Stewart Loo,
commanding officer of the task
force, sent a detective who speaks
Cantonese to talk to her.
“She saw him, and it was like
seeing her grandkids or some-
thing like that. She opened up,”
Loo said. “The details [she gave]
were very precise, very clear. And
from that interview, she was able
to ID the people that tried lighting
her on fire, which led to an arrest.”
At least 18 people have been
arrested in suspected hate crimes
against Asian Americans in New
York since the attacks began in
2020, Loo said.
Many have placed blame for
anti-Asian violence on former
president Donald Trump, who re-
peatedly called the coronavirus
the “China virus” and “kung flu”
during his time in office. The
Anti-Defamation League found
that anti-Asian sentiment on
Twitter spiked after Trump’s
October covid-19 diagnosis. Even
before that, about a third of Amer-
icans in a survey released in April
reported witnessing someone
blame Asian people for the pan-
demic.
But Rep. Mark Takano (D-
Calif.) says the problem runs
deeper than the former president.
During House Democrats’ round-
table discussion Friday about the
attacks, Takano noted that “this
sort of bias is latent throughout
American society, and it gets
worse or less worse depending on
the moment.”
As far back as the Chinese Ex-
clusion Act of 1882, which banned
Chinese laborers from immigrat-
ing to the United States, insidious
ideas about Asian people’s influ-
ence have fueled racist senti-
ments in the country. The act was
a product of the “yellow peril,” a
paranoia that Chinese immi-
grants were a threat to White
Americans’ jobs and other aspects
of Western life.
These ideas carried into the
20th century, when Chinese
American Vincent Chin was fatal-
ly beaten in Detroit in 1982 after
two men allegedly mistook him
for Japanese, a group that was
being blamed for the decline of
U.S. automakers. Chin’s assailants
received a fine and probation for
his death.
Tensions between Asian and
Black communities also date back
decades and have been reignited
by videos that show Black perpe-
trators in many of the recent at-
tacks on Asian Americans. Those
tensions are rooted in the proxim-
ity in which the two under-
resourced communities often live
and work, while “fighting for
crumbs,” said John C. Yang, presi-
dent and executive director of
Asian Americans Advancing Jus-
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MARK LEONG FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
tice in Washington.
That mutual suspicion has
boiled over several times in recent
history. In 1991, a Korean Ameri-
can convenience store owner in
Los Angeles accused 15-year-old
Latasha Harlins of shoplifting be-
fore fatally shooting her. The
shopkeeper was convicted of vol-
untary manslaughter but served
no jail time. A year later, the
acquittal of the Los Angeles police
officers who beat Rodney King set
off riots in the city, during which
many Korean shops were burned
and looted.
“There was a sense that the
shopkeepers were not respectful
of the Black clientele, didn’t trust
the Black clientele, and also over-
charged the Black clientele,” said
Brenda Stevenson, a history pro-
fessor at UCLA and author of “The
Contested Murder of Latasha
Harlins: Justice, Gender and the
Origins of the L.A. Riots.” “On the
other side, the Korean American
shopkeepers at the time felt that
the clientele were dangerous and
untrustworthy. Some of them had
been assaulted, some had been
killed.”
As the coronavirus pandemic
has saddled low-income commu-
nities with economic hardships,
community callouts and social
media posts seeking volunteers to
help protect business owners and
older residents have proliferated
in Asian American neighbor-
hoods. The volunteer patrols pass
out whistles so residents can alert
others to active crimes, and offer
to walk with older neighbors as
they run errands.
“Our community is hurting,”
said Kevin Chan, owner of Golden
Gate Fortune Cookie, which has
been a stop for the San Francisco
patrol. The Chinatown shop has
been open for 58 years, but busi-
ness has declined by 80 percent
since the pandemic, Chan said.
“Everybody is worried about
what’s happening, not just me,
everybody in the community,” he
said. “Because they just want to
make a living and then people are
attacking them just because they
have a store or they’re walking on
the street.”
When it comes to anti-Asian
sentiment, there are no boundar-
ies to who could become a victim,
said Tzi Ma, known as Holly-
wood’s go-to Asian father. The
actor, in his 60s, said he was yelled
at by a passerby in a car to “be
quarantined” while in a Whole
Foods parking lot in Pasadena,
Calif., at the beginning of the
pandemic, before the shutdowns.
“No matter what happens to us,
no matter what contributions we
make,” Ma said, “all the prestige,
all the wealth that we’ve accumu-
lated, we’re still treated the same
way.”
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Balance a tall task as ViacomCBS chases streaming giants
Paramount Plus will
lean on lucrative legacy
services to defray losses
BY S TEVEN Z EITCHIK
ViacomCBS on Wednesday
night announced Paramount
Plus, a beefed-up streaming serv-
ice it hopes will win coveted dol-
lars in an increasingly crowded
space.
But even as it hopes a burst of
material could help it compete
with rivals Peacock, HBO Max and
Hulu, the company must also con-
tend with another challenge: how
to grab new streaming customers
while not letting go of legacy dol-
lars.
It is, after all, that money that
help pays for the service, which
won’t be profitable for at least
several years.
“This is one of the quintessen-
tial challenges in this space,” said
Stephen Beck, the founder of
management consultancy cg42
and a strategist who closely fol-
lows the streaming world. “How
do you find that balance between
today and tomorrow?”
Paramount Plus will launch
next Thursday as a dramatic ex-
pansion of the existing CBS All
Access. The new product will cost
$4.99 per month for an ad-centric
basic tier and $9.99 for a premi-
um version, slightly less than
Hulu, Netflix, Disney Plus or HBO
Max in a pricing strategy the com-
pany hopes will allow it to in-
crease scale more quickly.
The cost of that basic tier is
actually $1 per month less than
ViacomCBS charges now for All
Access despite the clearly higher
investment the company will
make in Paramount Plus, under-
scoring how much it will be run at
a loss for the foreseeable future.
With the service’s debut, it com-
pletes a process that began when
Viacom and CBS reunited in 2019
with the hope of achieving greater
scale and a better streaming bun-
dle.
Paramount Plus will offer 36
new original shows in 2021 and
30,000 total hours of television
from CBS, MTV, Showtime, BET
and other of its networks, includ-
ing news and NFL content. It will
also make available about 2,500
existing movies — double that of
TIAA is first company in Fortune 500 history with two Black CEOs in a row
BY J ENA M C G REGOR
Retirement and investment
management firm TIAA said
Thursday that JPMorgan Chase
& Co. executive Thasunda Brown
Duckett would become its new
chief executive and president on
May 1, marking the first time a
Fortune 500 company has hand-
ed the reins directly from one
Black chief executive to another.
Duckett becomes the second
Black woman to earn a major
corner office job this year after
Walgreens Boots Alliance in Jan-
uary named Starbucks executive
Rosalind “Roz” Brewer as its next
CEO.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter considers
subscription product
Twitter gave the first outline of
a potential subscription product
that will let people charge
followers for access to special
content or experiences, part of a
broader effort to diversify the
company’s revenue sources and
give high-profile users a way to
make money on the service.
During an Analyst Day event
Thursday, Twitter mentioned a
new feature called “Super
Follows,” which it described as an
“account subscription.” The
company recently purchased
newsletter start-up Revue, and
executives have said they are
exploring a way to help
newsletter writers build a paying
audience on Twitter. The
company is also considering
“tipping,” or letting users donate
money to people they enjoy
following.
Presumably, Twitter would
take a cut of the subscription fee.
Bloomberg News previously
reported that Twitter was
exploring user subscription
features, and chief executive Jack
Dorsey discussed the idea of
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The ViacomCBS headquarters is seen Feb. 19 in New York. The company announced this week a beefed-up streaming service.
competitor HBO Max. New script-
ed shows from Tyler Perry, tie-in
series to Paramount movies such
as “Fatal Attraction” and “Grease,”
an animated movie featuring
“Beavis and Butt-head,” a revival
of “Frasier,” and nonscripted
shows from Amy Schumer and
Trevor Noah are also planned.
But experts warn that while all
of that content will serve as a lure
to the new service, it probably will
slow ViacomCBS’s flow of revenue
elsewhere. It could, for instance,
make consumers stop paying for
ViacomCBS’s existing services, in-
cluding their cable bill and their
subscriptions to pay-cable net-
work Showtime. It might also sim-
ply dissuade consumers from
watching shows on traditional
television where the number of
eyeballs viewing are critical to
high advertising rates.
ViacomCBS still has a healthy
and lucrative legacy business,
raising the question of whether
streaming could cut into that. The
Duckett will succeed Roger W.
Ferguson Jr., one of just four
current Black CEOs in the For-
tune 500, who had previously
announced his retirement. In
early February, Merck said CEO
Kenneth Frazier, one of those
four, would be retiring from the
pharmaceutical giant.
The handoff from one Black
CEO to another within the For-
tune 500 may finally signal the
market is recognizing the num-
ber of experienced Black execu-
tives who have run operational
business units of their own.
As CEO of Chase’s Consumer
Banking, Duckett has overseen
more than 40,000 employees and
paying to “unlock” content or
“tip” another user during a
recent interview.
Almost 90 percent of Twitter’s
sales come from advertising,
which can be seasonal and easily
influenced by factors outside the
company’s control. For example,
revenue fell 19 percent in the
second quarter during the height
of the pandemic shutdowns.
Earlier Thursday, Twitter set a
target to double annual revenue
to $7.5 billion by 2023 and said it
expects to increase its user base
by an average of almost
20 percent in each of the next
three years.
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RESTAURANT INDUSTRY
Pizza sales lose steam
after a spike in 2020
After a pandemic-fueled
boom, U.S. pizza sales appear to
be headed back to earth.
Domino’s and Papa John’s
pizza chains both said Thursday
that their same-store sales lost
steam in the fourth quarter
compared with the jumps they
saw earlier in 2020. Same-store
sales are expected to continue
showing percentage declines
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company revealed in its earnings
report this week that it made $4.1
billion in profit in fiscal 2020, a
number constant with the previ-
ous year, thanks largely to its
traditional television and film op-
erations. Revenue at its cable net-
works jumped 11 percent in the
fourth quarter compared to the
previous year.
And despite the pandemic,
fourth-quarter advertising rev-
enue at its TV division, powered
by the highly rated CBS, was also
constant, at $1.7 billion.
The company’s viewers are old-
er, and part of the hope is that it
can continue generating that
money while attracting younger
people who do not partake in
traditional CBS products.
It also must keep affiliates —
the roughly 230 independently
owned stations in markets such as
Atlanta and Phoenix that air its
programming now — accepting
the fact that it is not including
their content in its service and
$600 billion in deposits.
“This is a major moment,”
Michael Hyter, incoming presi-
dent and CEO of the Executive
Leadership Council, an advocacy
group for Black executives, said
in an interview. “A new norm can
form when things like this oc-
cur.”
Hyter said Duckett is a “really
well-qualified, ready, proven ex-
ecutive” and, like Starbucks’
Brewer, “represents the embodi-
ment” of the kind of executives
who’ve managed large opera-
tional businesses that are seen as
necessary steppingstones to the
chief executive’s job.
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DI GEST
well into this year.
Pizza delivery remains
popular, but diners’ choices are
expanding, with more
restaurants now offering
delivery. In a survey of 3,500 U.S.
restaurant operators last fall, the
National Restaurant Association
found that 27 percent had added
delivery by a third party like
DoorDash, while 17 percent had
added in-house delivery. Pizza
could also be pressured as the
pandemic eases and dining
rooms reopen.
Domino’s, based in Ann Arbor,
Mich., said its same-store sales —
or sales at stores open at least a
year — were up 11 percent in the
October-December period. That
was short of Wall Street’s
forecasts, and below the
17.5 percent growth the company
saw in the third quarter and the
16 percent growth it saw in the
second quarter.
Domino’s CEO Ritch Allison
said that the lack of federal
stimulus checks impacted
demand in the quarter and that
the resurgent virus hurt
carryout orders. But he also
acknowledged that many
independent restaurants, which
weren’t emphasizing delivery
before the pandemic, are now
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thus not paying them for any
rights. That move could jeopar-
dize relationships with the com-
panies CBS needs to broadcast its
revenue-producing shows.
ViacomCBS “may have just cut
the affiliates out of the base tier of
Paramount Plus. Will the affiliates
be okay with this?” analyst Rich
Greenfield of LightShed noted
shortly after the presentation.
Wall Street has pushed con-
glomerates like ViacomCBS to
move into streaming as consum-
ers “cut the cord” —— the act of
canceling traditional satellite or
cable service — with the idea that
even though the services won’t be
profitable for some time, the
trends of the future pretty much
require it.
Research from Variety Intelli-
gence Platform this week showed
that 21 percent of cable or satellite
subscribers have left a traditional
package since the start of 2017.
But that still leaves 67 million
people receiving their television
Council said Kaiser Permanente
CEO Bernard J. Tyson, who died
in 2019, was succeeded by an-
other Black CEO, Greg Adams.
But because Kaiser is not a
Fortune 500 corporation, TIAA’s
succession “is the only Black CEO
to Black CEO transition of this
magnitude of which we are
aware,” a spokeswoman said in
an email.
In February, an analysis by
Fortune found that just 19 of the
1,800 CEOs that have led Fortune
500 companies since 1955, when
the list was first published, have
been Black. Three of those 19
only held the job on an interim
basis, and only one company
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Metallurgical Co., a subsidiary of the Russian metal and mining firm
Nornickel, in Monchegorsk, Russia. Nornickel, one of the world’s
largest nickel producers, had to partly suspend operations at two of
its main mines in Siberia because it had detected an inflow of water
underground.
stronger competitors.
Louisville-based Papa John’s
said its North American same-
store sales rose 13.5 percent after
soaring more than 20 percent in
both the second and third
quarters.
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via cable or satellite.
Those 67 million customers
continue to pour money into the
coffers of ViacomCBS — which
includes not just over-the-air CBS,
often the most-watched TV net-
work, but many of the most popu-
lar cable networks, among them
MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, Nick-
elodeon, CMT, BET, Showtime
and Pop.
The company must also strike a
balance between maintaining
profits and growing subscribers
as it considers what to do with its
production of movies. While most
business models at Paramount
and other studios are designed for
the theatrical box office — the
most recent “Mission: Impossi-
ble” took in nearly $800 million
worldwide — a streaming service
demands high-end original con-
tent.
The company seems eager to
try to walk the line between those
two requirements, saying
Wednesday that 2021 releases
appears on the list twice. In 1987,
Clifton Wharton became the
CEO of TIAA, which at the time
was included on a “service com-
panies” list that was kept sepa-
rate from the primary Fortune
500 ranking. TIAA is now part of
the Fortune 500 list.
Hyter also noted that TIAA
and Ferguson have been focused
on developing and providing op-
portunities for diverse talent,
something Ferguson, TIAA’s out-
going CEO, discussed last sum-
mer amid the expansion of the
Black Lives Matter movement.
Ferguson, who started out in a
segregated elementary school in
Washington, D.C., has spoken
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“Mission: Impossible 7” and “A
Quiet Place Part 2” will debut on
Paramount Plus only after they’ve
been shown in theaters for 45
days. That is shorter than the
traditional 75- to 90-day window
but far longer than Warner Me-
dia’s plan to release its 2021 mov-
ies on HBO Max simultaneously
with their appearance in theaters.
Showtime remains a conun-
drum, too. ViacomCBS collects a
portion of monthly subscriber
fees for the network that can be as
high as $15. But on Wednesday,
ViacomCBS executives said the
company would put its anticipat-
ed “Halo” adaptation on Para-
mount Plus, not Showtime.
To achieve profitability and,
eventually, offset the loss of rev-
enue in other places, Paramount
Plus must reach a huge audience,
something that could be tricky
without the brand identification
of Disney, Netflix or HBO.
ViacomCBS executives said
that, combined, All Access and
Showtime’s digital version, Show-
time Anytime, have a total of 19
million subscribers now, all of
whom will be converted to Para-
mount Plus. Geetha Rangana-
than, a media analyst for Bloom-
berg Intelligence, estimates that
ViacomCBS will need to more
than double that total to 40 mil-
lion to 50 million to be successful.
“That seems like a tall order,”
Ranganathan concluded.
Executives acknowledged that
there’s tension between old and
new business models but said
they believe they can be harmo-
nized.
“We’re not about only linear or
only streaming,” said ViacomCBS
chairman Shari Redstone, using
the industry term for legacy TV
viewing. “We’re about both linear
and streaming. .... . . We will live in
this hybrid environment for a
while.”
Whether streaming dollars one
day prove as lucrative as linear
ones remains to be seen.
Beck, the consultant, said he is
skeptical. “I don’t think many of
the companies that have launched
big streaming bundles have the
institutional knowledge of the di-
rect-to-consumer business,” he
said. “And I think many of them
are underestimating the difficulty
of making the transition.”
steven.zeitchik@washpost.com
openly about his experience as a
Black executive, noting he has
been mistaken as a waiter and
had trouble hailing a taxi in New
York.
Asked in a Fortune interview
last summer how he would ad-
vise CEOs who want to create
diverse teams, he said “I would
tell them, frankly, to get on with
it, so to speak, and be very, very
intentional about it.”
He pointed to his boardroom
being 50 percent female and
having a larger percentage of
underrepresented minorities.
“That’s not an accident. It was
very intentional.”
jena.mcgregor@washpost.com
the economy is at risk of going
bust. Watchdogs flagged
29.2 percent of complex
corporate lending as troubled in
2020, up from 13.5 percent in
2019, according to a report
released Thursday by the Fed
and other agencies. Real estate,
entertainment, transportation,
oil and gas, and retail were cited
as particular problem areas.
Demand for faux burgers is
growing so rapidly that JBS, the
world’s biggest meat supplier,
said it will probably set up a new
global company focused solely on
plant-based products. Meat from
animals will be a pricey luxury in
the future, and people will have
to turn to vegetable-derived
alternatives, which will be
cheaper, JBS’s chief executive
Gilberto Tomazoni said. In
addition, the amount of meat
needed to satisfy the world’s
protein needs won’t be possible
to produce.
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January.
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Senate o∞cial:
Wage hike can’t
be in covid bill
Liberals call for dramatic
action to get around
parliamentarian’s ruling
BY E RICA W ERNER
President Biden’s proposed $15-
an-hour minimum-wage increase
cannot remain in his coronavirus
relief bill as written, the Senate’s
parliamentarian said Thursday,
imperiling a major Biden cam-
paign promise and top priority for
the Democratic Party’s liberal
wing.
The ruling could be a major
setback for liberals hoping to use
Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief bill as
the vehicle for their long-sought
goal of raising the federal mini-
mum wage from its current level
of $7.25 an hour. And it could
create divisions in the party as
some push Democratic leaders for
dramatic action to get around the
parliamentarian’s ruling.
Democrats had been anxiously
awaiting the decision, but their
next steps are not clear. Liberals
are pressuring Senate Majority
Leader Charles E. Schumer
(D-N.Y.) to challenge the ruling on
the Senate floor, although the
White House has dismissed that
idea.
Schumer released a brief state-
ment Thursday night vowing to
fight on, without saying how.
“We are deeply disappointed in
this decision. We are not going to
give up the fight to raise the mini-
mum wage to $15 to help millions
of struggling American workers
and their families,” Schumer said.
“The American people deserve it,
and we are committed to making
it a reality.”
White House press secretary
Jen Psaki said in a statement that
Biden was “disappointed in this
outcome” but “respects the parlia-
mentarian’s decision and the Sen-
ate’s process.”
Strike against Iran’s proxies comes amid Biden’s outreach to Tehran
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“We have acted in a deliberate
manner that aims to de-escalate
the overall situation in both east-
ern Syria and Iraq.”
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin
told reporters Thursday that he
was confident the building target-
ed in Syria was used by the militia
responsible for recent attacks.
“It was my recommendation.
We’ve said a number of times, we
will respond on our timeline. And,
once again [we] wanted to be sure
of the connectivity and that we
had the right targets,” he said,
according to Military Times.
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“He will work with leaders in
Congress to determine the best
path forward, because no one in
this country should work full time
and live in poverty,” Psaki said. “He
urges Congress to move quickly to
pass the American Rescue Plan.”
The ruling was made by Senate
Parliamentarian Elizabeth Mac-
Donough, a nonpartisan official
who is little known outside Wash-
ington but might command tre-
mendous influence over certain
elements of Biden’s agenda. Her
ruling pertains only to the Senate,
where the legislation will move
forward under complex rules that
prohibit certain items that don’t
have a particular effect on the
budget. MacDonough determined
that, as written, the minimum-
wage increase did not pass that
test — an outcome that had been
predicted by a number of Demo-
crats, including Biden himself.
Despite her ruling, the House is
preparing to vote Friday to pass
the stimulus relief package with
the $15 minimum wage included
and send it to the Senate, House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
said in a statement Thursday.
“House Democrats believe that
the minimum-wage hike is neces-
sary,” Pelosi said. “Therefore this
provision will remain in the Amer-
ican Rescue Plan on the floor to-
morrow. Democrats in the House
are determined to pursue every
possible path in the Fight for 15.”
Pelosi’s decision to pass the
$1.9 trillion relief bill with the
minimum-wage language intact
means Schumer will face a poten-
tially consequential decision. He
could take out the minimum-wage
language before putting the bill on
the Senate floor, or try to keep it in
the bill — whether by challenging
the parliamentarian’s ruling or
trying to rewrite the provision in
such a way that it could pass mus-
ter under the Senate’s complicated
rules.
Senate Finance Committee
Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)
and Senate Budget Committee
The White House did not issue a
statement or otherwise acknowl-
edge the strike.
A U.S. official, speaking on the
condition of anonymity to provide
additional details, said the single
strike targeted a cluster of build-
ings along Syria’s eastern border
and was believed to have killed up
to a handful of people.
The attack comes as President
Biden attempts to open a diplo-
matic door to Iran. Biden has
agreed to European-led talks with
Iran about the future of the 2015
international nuclear deal that
President Donald Trump re-
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Activists appeal for a $15 minimum wage near the Capitol, where Congress is considering President Biden’s $1.9 trillion covid relief bill.
The bill includes a provision that the federal minimum wage would grow to $15 an hour over five years.
Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)
suggested late Thursday that they
would consider pairing the wage
increase with tax penalties on cor-
porations that don’t pay a higher
minimum wage, which might
change whether it meets the par-
liamentarian’s criteria.
Schumer has not said what he
will do. Liberals are pushing him
and the Biden administration to
try to overrule the parliamentari-
an’s decision, which Democrats
could attempt to do on the Senate
floor.
“We said we’d raise the wage.
Now, we need to deliver,” Rep.
Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), head
of the Congressional Progressive
Caucus, said on Twitter. “We must
be prepared to use every tool in
our toolbox to get this done,
whether it’s overruling the parlia-
mentarian if necessary or finally
ending the filibuster. Not deliver-
ing is not an option.”
But White House Chief of Staff
Ron Klain has publicly ruled out
Iran has appeared to rebuff
Biden’s initial efforts to resume
diplomacy, and for now the United
States remains outside the agree-
ment.
The airstrike appears to be part
of a U.S. message to Iran that it
cannot improve its leverage in
talks by attacking U.S. interests.
But Biden’s decision to use force
may also set back his plan to shift
the focus of U.S. national security
away from the Middle East in a
long-planned pivot to Asia.
“The strike, the way I see it, was
meant to set the tone with Tehran
and dent its inflated confidence
ahead of negotiations,” said Bilal
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trying to overrule the parliamen-
tarian, and Democrats probably
would not command the neces-
sary votes to succeed anyway, be-
cause at least one Senate Demo-
crat — Joe Manchin III (W.Va.) —
has said he would not vote to
overrule the parliamentarian.
The Senate is divided 50-50 be-
tween Democrats and Republi-
cans, so Democrats need unanimi-
ty in their ranks to pass Biden’s
coronavirus relief legislation and
overcome procedural hurdles
such as the minimum-wage rul-
ing. They are pushing the legisla-
tion forward over unified GOP op-
position under a procedure called
“budget reconciliation” that al-
lows them to prevail with a simple
majority, instead of the 60 votes
normally required — but also lim-
its what can be included in the
package, such as the minimum-
wage increase.
Manchin and a second Senate
Democrat, Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.),
had indicated opposition to in-
Saab, a former Pentagon official
who is currently a senior fellow
with the Middle East Institute.
“You don’t want to enter into po-
tential talks with Iran on any issue
with a bruise to your face from the
Irbil attacks.”
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.), a
member of the House Foreign Af-
fairs Committee who has called for
retaliatory strikes on Iranian-
backed militias, welcomed the at-
tack.
“Responses like this are a neces-
sary deterrent and remind Iran, its
proxies, and our adversaries
around the world that attacks on
U.S. interests will not be tolerat-
ed,” he said in a statement.
Other Republicans, including
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), de-
scribed the strike as “targeted,
proportional and necessary.”
SITE Intelligence Group re-
ported that a pro-Shiite militant
news outlet minimized the effect
Court urged to end school use of race
BY N ICK A NDERSON
AND R OBERT B ARNES
A group opposed to affirmative
action in college admissions
Thursday asked the Supreme
Court to overturn a key precedent
that allows schools to consider
race when choosing an entering
class.
The petition from Students for
Fair Admissions was the expected
next step in its long-running
challenge to Harvard University’s
admissions process. Colleges and
universities around the country
are watching a case with major
ramifications for the world of
competitive admissions.
In November, the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the 1st Circuit upheld
a lower court’s ruling in 2019 that
Harvard does not discriminate
against Asian Americans when
its undergraduate college uses
race and ethnicity as a factor in
reviewing applicants.
Students for Fair Admissions
filed suit against Harvard in 2014,
alleging that the university vio-
lates civil rights law in ways that
penalize Asian Americans. Har-
vard denied the allegations.
The group’s new petition asks
the Supreme Court to overturn a
2003 ruling that allows race-
conscious admissions in higher
THE WASHINGTON POST
cluding the minimum-wage in-
crease in Biden’s relief bill anyway,
so even if the parliamentarian had
allowed it, it’s not clear the provi-
sion would have been able to ad-
vance. Nevertheless, liberals had
been holding out hope of being
able to keep all Democrats on
board to approve the overall bill
with the minimum wage included.
If the Senate sends the legisla-
tion back to the House without the
minimum-wage increase, liberals
in that chamber will have to de-
cide whether to vote for it anyway.
The legislation does include many
other items Democrats widely
support, including an increased
child tax credit, a new round of
$1,400 stimulus checks to individ-
uals, increased and expanded un-
employment insurance, and hun-
dreds of billions of dollars for cit-
ies and states, schools, vaccina-
tions and testing.
The House has advanced stand-
alone bills increasing the mini-
mum wage in the past, but it’s
of the strike, alleging it struck an
empty building and killed one per-
son.
The operation follows intense
U.S.-Iranian hostilities during the
Trump administration, which
identified weakening Iran’s lead-
ership as a top foreign policy pri-
ority.
In January 2020, the military
launched a strike killing a senior
Iranian military figure, Qasem So-
leimani, in Baghdad. In response,
Iran launched a major missile at-
tack on a base housing U.S. troops
in Iraq.
Some experts said the airstrike
on Thursday signals a strategic
middle ground that avoids further
diplomatic strains with the Iraqi
government, which assists the
United States in the fight against
the Islamic State and could view a
strike in Iraq as a violation of its
sovereignty.
Mick Mulroy, who served as a
education in the interest of
achieving student body diversity.
That 2003 ruling in the case
known as Grutter v. Bollinger, the
group contends, was “grievously
wrong.”
“After six and one-half years of
litigation, the hundreds of Asian-
American students who were un-
fairly and illegally rejected from
Harvard because of their race
may soon have this lawsuit re-
viewed by the U.S. Supreme
Court,” the group’s president, Ed-
ward Blum, said in a statement.
“It is our hope that the justices
will accept this case and finally
end the consideration of race and
ethnicity in college admissions.”
Harvard continues to argue
that creating a diverse campus
community is essential to its
mission.
“As earlier court decisions have
confirmed, our admissions pol-
icies are consistent with Supreme
Court precedent,” the university
said in a statement. “We will
continue to vigorously defend the
right of Harvard College, and
every other college and university
in the nation, to seek the educa-
tional benefits that come from
bringing together a diverse group
of students.”
The Supreme Court upheld the
limited use of race in university
. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 , 2021
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highly unlikely the Senate would
agree to such legislation — at least
not at the $15-an-hour level liber-
als support.
One possibility is to find com-
promise at a lower level — Man-
chin has endorsed $11 an hour —
and then to try to get it in the bill in
a different way, for example by
crafting it more narrowly.
Several liberal Democrats said
Thursday they need to do whatev-
er it takes to raise the minimum
wage — including eliminating the
filibuster, the 60-vote rule that
gives the minority party enor-
mous sway in the Senate. Manchin
and Sinema have said publicly
they oppose taking that step.
“We still need to pass the mini-
mum wage, and if that means get-
ting rid of the filibuster, so be it,”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)
said.
erica.werner@washpost.com
Mike DeBonis contributed to this
report.
top Pentagon official for the Mid-
dle East during the Trump admin-
istration and is now an analyst
with ABC News, said the strike
was probably “calculated and
scaled to avoid an escalation and
send a message that Iran’s use of
militias as proxies will not allow
them to avoid responsibility.”
On Tuesday, Biden discussed
the recent attacks with Iraqi Prime
Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi and
agreed that those responsible
“must be held fully to account,” the
White House said in a statement.
As the Pentagon seeks to shift
its focus, officials are conducting a
review of the U.S. posture in Iraq,
where a force of about 2,500 re-
mains to support counterinsur-
gent operations, and in Syria,
where U.S. troops number fewer
than 1,000.
missy.ryan@washpost.com
anne.gearan@washpost.com
alex.horton@washpost.com
admissions the last time it con-
sidered the issue in 2016. In a
surprise, Justice Anthony M.
Kennedy said the University of
Texas’s admission program com-
plied with the 2003 Grutter prec-
edent.
It was the first time Kennedy
had ever voted for a race-con-
scious government program. He
sided with the court’s liberals in
the 4-to-3 vote. (The court was
shorthanded at the time because
of the death of Justice Antonin
Scalia, and Justice Elena Kagan
recused herself because she had
previously worked on the issue in
the Obama administration.)
The dissenters in the Texas
case were Chief Justice John G.
Roberts Jr., Justice Clarence
Thomas and Justice Samuel A.
Alito Jr. They have since been
joined by three conservative col-
leagues nominated by President
Donald Trump whose past rul-
ings and writings would seem to
make them sympathetic to an
argument that Grutter’s time has
passed.
It could be a couple of months
before the court announces
whether it will hear the case. If so,
it would be argued in the term
that begins in October.
nick.anderson@washpost.com
robert.barnes@washpost.com
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 , 2021 . THE WASHINGTON POST
JOSH ROGIN
The clock
is ticking on
North Korea
resident Biden is searching for a
P new North Korea strategy — but the
clock is ticking. As the new adminis-
tration in Washington finds its foot-
ing, patience in Pyongyang and Seoul is
wearing thin. The Biden team must realize
that a reprise of President Barack Obama’s
wait-and-see approach will not work — and
neither will a repeat of President Donald
Trump’s dramatic, personality-driven
schemes. Biden should avoid strategic pa-
tience and reengage diplomatically, but this
time with realistic goals.
Before leaving office, Obama told Trump
that North Korea was the most urgent
national security issue. Trump actually lis-
tened, proceeding to launch the highest-
level diplomacy between Washington and
Pyongyang in history — which failed for a
variety of reasons. Then, the coronavirus
pandemic froze the issue in place. Now, as
the freeze begins to thaw, Obama’s national
security officials are back in power. But
they inherit a North Korea problem more
difficult than when they last saw it.
“North Korea’s ballistic missile and nu-
clear weapons programs grew over the last
four years,” a senior administration official
told me. “The regime and its arsenal be-
came an even greater threat.”
The administration’s ongoing North Ko-
rea policy review could easily stretch into
the summer. There has been no official
contact between the Biden administration
and the regime of Kim Jong Un, according
to the official, and little substantive com-
munication on the issue with Beijing.
“At some point, we will need to engage
the Chinese on this, but right now we are
focused on allies and partners,” the official
said.
North Korea-watchers on both sides of
the Pacific are wondering who will get the
job of special representative for North Ko-
rea policy, which is vacant. Sung Kim, the
acting head of the State Department’s Asia
bureau, led a trilateral meeting with senior
Japanese and South Korean diplomats last
week. Kim could be chosen for the special
representative post, which he previously
held, or could be picked to run the bureau
permanently, or both.
Deputy Secretary of State nominee Wen-
dy Sherman previously served as the State
Department’s top North Korea official. If
confirmed, she could wear both hats, as
Deputy Secretary of State Steve Biegun did
at the end of the Trump administration.
The State Department also plans to fill the
post of North Korean human rights envoy,
which was discarded during the Trump
administration, the official said.
Once everyone finds their seats, they’ll
need a policy to implement. The Stimson
Center’s 38 North program has released a
working group report recommending that
Biden engage in active diplomacy with
Pyongyang to achieve small gains that
mitigate the security threat. Arguing that
the goal of complete denuclearization is
“unachievable,” the groups says Washing-
ton should be prepared to offer reciprocal
concessions for incremental progress, in-
cluding limited sanctions relief as a condi-
tional and reversible incentive.
If the Biden team doesn’t make the first
move, it risks being accused of returning to
Obama’s pattern of “strategic patience,”
waiting for Kim Jong Un to come crawling.
But the record shows that North Korea is
more likely to buck than buckle, and a long
silence from Washington could be broken
by the loud boom from a new nuclear test.
That would set off a familiar escalatory
cycle that could make real progress
unattainable.
“The pressure strategy alone is not
enough and it cannot solve the problem,”
said Jungsup Kim, senior research fellow at
the Sejong Institute. “We are not in a
position to ignore North Korea, even if it
cannot be trusted. Every day, the North
Korean nuclear capability is advancing.”
The elephant in the room is China. Bei-
jing is not likely to help the United States
increase pressure on North Korea, as it did
in 2017. Linking North Korea diplomacy to
the U.S.-China relationship didn’t work in
the Trump administration, and U.S.-China
relations aren’t likely getting better soon.
There’s time pressure coming from Seoul
as well. South Korean President Moon Jae-
in is approaching the end of his term, and
North Korean peace is his supposed legacy.
Moon’s political urgency is in direct conflict
with Biden’s deliberative process.
“President Moon wants the Biden ad-
ministration to be reminded that strategic
patience is no longer possible,” said Jihwan
Hwang, professor at the University of
Seoul.
The Biden team need not abandon all of
Trump’s work. The 2018 statement Trump
and Kim Jong Un signed at their Singapore
Summit can be salvaged as a framework for
new discussions, the 38 North report ar-
gues. Kim’s personal engagement in the
diplomatic process is positive. He seems
restrained for now and is even publicly
acknowledging his country’s dire economic
situation, indicating he is motivated to
improve the lives of his people.
The Biden team must not give up on
denuclearizing North Korea or stopping
the atrocities there, but meanwhile must do
everything possible to keep the threat to
Americans and allies from growing even
worse. That means committing to political-
ly sensitive, difficult, high-risk, low-reward
diplomacy, to lessen the danger for all — the
sooner the better.
josh.rogin@washpost.com
FRIDAY Opinion
Trump supporters clash with police officers outside the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Domestic violent extremism
has no place in our country
BY A LEJANDRO N . M AYORKAS
omestic violent extremism
D poses the most lethal and per-
sistent terrorism-related
threat to our country today.
The Department of Homeland Secu-
rity, working with its many partners at
the local, state and federal levels, is
taking immediate action to address it.
For several years, the United States
has been suffering an upsurge in
domestic violent extremism. The
horror of seeing the U.S. Capitol, one of
the pillars of our democracy, attacked
on Jan. 6 was a brutal example of our
suffering, and it compels us all to action.
On Thursday, DHS issued more than
$1 billion in homeland security grants
to eligible state, local, territorial and
tribal partners, as we do each year.
These grants are a critical tool to pro-
tect the homeland from the most ur-
gent threats. As a department, we rec-
ognize that we must adapt our grant-
making to account for the evolving
threat environment.
That is why I have designated do-
mestic violent extremism as a National
Priority Area for the first time, and will
require state and local governments to
spend 7.5 percent of their DHS grant
awards combating this threat. In prac-
tice, this means state and local govern-
ments nationwide will spend at least
$77 million to prevent, prepare for,
protect against and respond to domes-
tic violent extremism. Well-established
grant guidance clarifies eligible ex-
penses for building these important
capabilities. It also ensures the funds
are spent in ways that demonstrably
contribute to identifiable security
needs while upholding our nation’s
values.
This new guidance is just one of the
risk-based ways we are refocusing the
department to address the evolving
MICHAEL GERSON
There’s nothing conservative about CPAC
sking Conservative Political Ac-
A tion Conference attendees for
their views on conservatism is
like asking arsonists to lecture
on fire safety. For decades, the fondest
hope of the kind of agitators attracted
by this annual event has been a Republi-
can president who shares the breadth of
their grievance, the depth of their anger
and the fervor of their conspiratorial
delusions. In Donald Trump, they finally
found their man. He will be welcomed
this year — as he will be for the rest of
his life — as the god-king of Crazy Town.
The problem is that Trump has ex-
tended his realm to include state Re-
publican Party institutions across the
country, which now see their primary
role as the censure of sanity. The vast
majority of elected Republicans have
demonstrated their cravenness by fall-
ing meekly into line. And the vast
majority of Republican voters seem to
view Crazy Town as preferable to what
they believe is the other place: the
socialist, “PC,” police-free Republic of
Liberalistan.
There is no doubt that negative parti-
sanship — the making of political choic-
es mainly out of contempt for the other
side — has increased the power of
activists in our system of government.
Any group — even one with views
outside the mainstream — that can seize
control of a political party can count on
the broad support of partisans for that
party. So plenty of supporters of John
McCain’s and Mitt Romney’s presiden-
tial candidacies, when faced with a
binary choice on the ballot, voted for
Trump’s election — and for his reelec-
tion, despite a failed and divisive first
term.
This dynamic is dangerous because
politics has a morally instructive role.
When those holding opinions outside
the mainstream gain high office, their
opinions are inevitably mainstreamed.
EZ RE
threat environment. As the horrific
events of Jan. 6 underscored, DHS
must have the operational capacity to
appropriately respond to domestic vio-
lent extremism. After being confirmed
as secretary of homeland security, one
of my first actions was to increase
training opportunities for law enforce-
ment personnel to conduct threat-
assessment and threat-management
programs related to domestic violent
extremism. We are also reviewing
suspicious-activity reporting and
travel-pattern analyses to more effec-
tively protect all communities from
violence.
Americans have witnessed the costs
of allowing politics to pervade intelli-
gence. Since Inauguration Day, DHS
has increased the development, pro-
duction and sharing of intelligence and
other information central to counter-
ing domestic violent extremism. We
have done so in partnership with state,
local, tribal and territorial officials; law
enforcement; the private sector; and
international allies. The operational
integration and sharing of timely, ob-
jective intelligence can save lives.
The Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was
one of many events that constitute a
multi-year pattern of violence by do-
mestic extremists. These individuals
and groups have largely been radical-
ized by the spread of false narratives,
extremist rhetoric and conspiracy the-
ories such as QAnon, which are dissem-
inated on social media and other online
platforms by malign actors, both for-
eign and domestic.
As some private companies have tak-
en steps to curb this online activity,
extremists have moved to darker, less
public parts of the Web, where there are
fewer restrictions. More can be done to
stop the spread of extremist material
online, and DHS officials are carefully
studying how best to address extrem-
Views espoused by an extremist at CPAC
merely reinforce the views of other
extremists. Views declared from behind
a lectern with a presidential seal on it
are at least partially normalized. If we
believe that moral leadership can im-
prove a country, it follows that immoral
leadership can debase it.
An example: Many Americans have
an uninformed or mixed opinion about
undocumented migrants. When an
American president compares such mi-
grants to vermin, slanders them as
rapists and criminals, shatters their
families at the border and condemns
their children to cages, Americans are
given permission for dehumanization.
Other GOP politicians are given a green
light for demonization. White suprema-
cists are confirmed and emboldened in
their hatred. Not just the politics of the
country but also the character of the
country are poisoned.
This is one reason that right-wing
populists can never be true conserva-
tives. If intellectual conservatism
means anything, it means one genera-
tion has the moral duty to cultivate
humanizing beliefs and habits in the
next. Conservatives do not believe that
human beings come pre-wired for char-
acter. Children must be carefully taught
to know what is right, informed by
millennia of reflection on the matter.
They must be instructed to do what is
right through example and habituation.
No form of traditional conservatism
would urge people to follow their de-
structive passions or indulge their baser
instincts.
Some might object that such a con-
servatism no longer exists as a mass
movement in American politics. True,
but beside the point. This is not a
political platform. It is a moral frame-
work to make sense of life and politics.
Claiming it is irrelevant is like saying
the Pythagorean theorem is outdated.
JULIO CORTEZ/ASSOCIATED PRESS
ists’ abuse of social media to recruit and
radicalize people to violence. As part of
this effort, DHS is also working to
increase public awareness and resil-
ience to disinformation and false nar-
ratives that inspire domestic extremist
violence.
DHS will continue to lawfully
monitor threats posed by foreign ter-
rorist organizations. But we also know
that the threat posed by domestic vio-
lent extremism will remain persistent.
We have witnessed an increase in do-
mestic attacks, particularly by white-
supremacist, anti-government and
anti-authority extremists. The majority
of these attacks have targeted commu-
nities of color and other minority
groups. The 2019 shooting in El Paso
was motivated by anti-immigrant ex-
tremism, and the attack on the Tree of
Life synagogue in Pittsburgh less than a
year before was motivated by antise-
mitic extremism. Recently, domestic
violent extremists have focused their
attention on government facilities and
personnel.
Under the First Amendment, every
American has the right to free speech.
Some domestic extremists, however,
use the banner of the First Amendment
to disguise their attempts to incite and
engage in violence. Inciting others to
commit violent acts is a crime. The
Department of Homeland Security will
use its authorities to counter the
threats posed by this violence, consis-
tent with the law.
Under President Biden’s leadership,
we are focused on preventing and com-
bating domestic violent extremism. As
secretary of homeland security, I will
ensure that we bring to bear the full
resources of our department to counter
this threat and protect the American
people.
The writer is secretary of homeland security.
By a conservative standard, what
should we make of the activists and
participants at CPAC? It is worth noting
that many who attend each year are
young. What moral messages is an older
generation transmitting to the next?
With many of the sessions premised
on the big lie of a stolen presidential
election, young attendees will certainly
be taught that truth is infinitely malle-
able in service to ideology.
They will surely be instructed that
their political opponents are really ruth-
less, inhuman enemies, bent on cancel-
ing and silencing them by any means
necessary.
By the systematic downplaying of the
recent attack on the Capitol — and
probably some wink-and-nudge approv-
al — they will learn that the recourse to
violence is permissible in politics, and
that democracy is valuable only if it
serves their ends.
From the attendance of eager presi-
dential hopefuls such as Texas Sen. Ted
Cruz and Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley,
they will learn that exclusion, deception
and the maximization of White griev-
ance are the future of the GOP, and that
encouraging sedition is not a shameful
disqualification for the Oval Office.
From Trump’s deification they will
learn that civility is for losers, that
compassion is for suckers, that misogy-
ny can be fun, that strength requires
brutality and that racism makes for
good politics. They will learn that dead-
ly incompetence, based on lies and
lunacy and costing countless lives,
means nothing. They will learn that the
Constitution can be shredded in the
pursuit of raw power and that populism
must be rowdy enough and transgres-
sive enough to break a few windows and
kill a few policemen.
Call this what you will, but it has
nothing to do with conservatism.
michaelgerson@washpost.com
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FAREED ZAKARIA
Why do we
keep walling
ourselves off?
ongress began hearings this week
C on the security failures that led to
the Capitol being invaded by an
armed mob on Jan. 6. That’s
appropriate and useful, but my fear is
that these kinds of inquiries almost
always end up adding more security
procedures, putting up more barricades
and making American government ever
more imperial, armed and removed from
its citizens.
I remember living in Washington
briefly during the 1980s. It was easy to
enter Congress and walk amid the grand
rooms and imposing statues, occasional-
ly bumping into senators. Even the White
House was relatively accessible, as it had
always been designed to be.
No more. After the 1995 Oklahoma
City bombing, the 1998 Capitol shooting
and 9/11, citizens who wish to go to the
Capitol must go through a tightly con-
trolled tour that begins in a vast under-
ground “visitor center,” where they are
forced to watch a movie. (Can’t we watch
the movie at home?) Over the same
period, ugly barricades were thrown up
around the White House, with parts of
Pennsylvania Avenue blocked off. Since
the Black Lives Matter protests last sum-
mer, even more barriers went up around
the White House. In the wake of Jan. 6, it
is surely going to get worse.
I understand the need for security, but
in a democracy, that has to be balanced
against the need for openness and acces-
sibility. Pierre L’Enfant, the architect of
Washington, D.C., designed the city’s
broad avenues so that people could al-
ways see the country’s great government
buildings, which he believed were sym-
bols of democracy. The country spent
extravagantly building the Capitol, per-
severing in its construction even during
the Civil War because it was a monument
for its citizens, not an office building for
the politicians.
The situation is much worse abroad.
The United States’ diplomatic outposts
used to be handsome buildings in the
center of cities where people could meet
and events were held. I recall going to
watch classic Hollywood movies spon-
sored by the U.S. Information Service at
the stunning seaside consulate in Mum-
bai. But that architectural jewel has been
sold off, as have others. U.S. diplomats
now often work in fortress-like buildings,
behind concrete blast walls, with multi-
ple layers of security, rarely encountering
the people of the country they are in. If
you want to know why, after 20 years and
trillions of dollars, the United States is
not well understood or loved in Iraq or
Afghanistan, visit the U.S. embassies in
their capitals.
The United States has more of an
imperial apparatus than many actual
empires did. For decades, even when
London ruled the world, anyone could
walk right up to 10 Downing Street, the
home and office of the British prime
minister. After a string of IRA bombings
in the 1980s, the government installed
simple gates, blocking off one small
street. Even the French, who are partial
to grandeur, have a modest set of low,
movable barriers around the Élysée Pal-
ace, which houses the president.
The way American politics works to-
day, you are rewarded only for advocat-
ing more security. So, after 9/11, embas-
sies and consulates around the world
turned down hundreds of thousands of
qualified visitors because the officials
denying the applications pay no political
costs for doing so. But had they let in one
person who committed a terrorist attack,
they would have been hauled in front of
Congress and crucified. The same men-
tality explains the massive numbers of
documents that are routinely classified.
As a friend who works in government
explained to me, “No one has ever been
fired for classifying things as secret.” The
result: massive over-classification, which
limits information-sharing within gov-
ernment and with the public. (Former
CIA director Michael Hayden recalls that
he once got a top-secret message that
read, “Merry Christmas.”)
This hyper-securitization is part of
what the scholar Paul Light calls the
“thickening” of government, the adding
of layers and layers of hierarchy and
more procedures — which creates a more
closed, bureaucratic and inflexible or-
ganization. He writes, “COVID-19
showed just how far Americans must go
to find accountability in the federal hier-
archy. Health care heroes waiting for
personal protective equipment faced
18 layers between the top of the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services and
the PPE at the Strategic National Stock-
pile. Small businesses waiting for Pay-
check Protection support faced 16 layers
between the top of the Treasury Depart-
ment and the Small Business Adminis-
tration’s program office.”
If you are trying to understand why the
America performs so poorly in situations
such as the pandemic and is also so
distrusted by its citizens, this might be a
crucial part of the answer. The U.S. gov-
ernment now resembles a dinosaur — a
large, lumbering beast with much body
and little brain, increasingly well-pro-
tected but distant from ordinary people
and unresponsive to the real challenges
that confront the nation.
fareed.zakaria.gps@turner.com
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ABCDE
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
No excuse for protectionism
Mr. Biden’s supply-chain review should confirm the wisdom of lawful trade with allies.
RESIDENT BIDEN signed an ex-
P ecutive order Wednesday direct-
ing federal agencies to make an
intensive study of potential vul-
nerabilities in the industrial supply chain
for such important inputs as rare-earth
metals and certain pharmaceuticals.
Mr. Biden has in mind a two-phase pro-
gram: the first phase, lasting 100 days,
would produce a report on four key
categories of products; the second phase,
lasting a year, would examine whole
industrial sectors, from defense to en-
ergy to transportation. The integration of
the U.S. economy into an ever-widening
system of globally traded raw materials,
intermediate goods and finished prod-
ucts has been going on for decades, but
the coronavirus crisis has triggered sud-
den shortages of medical equipment and,
most recently, semiconductors, making
supply-chain security a new priority for
business and government.
The federal government should spear-
head fact-finding, as Mr. Biden has just
ordered. It’s never a good idea to solve a
problem before you know exactly what it
is, yet a September 2020 Congressional
Research Service report on medical sup-
Cambodia attacks the Web
Democracies must fight for a free Internet, as China pushes the other way.
AMBODIA HAS descended into
C dictatorship in much the same
manner that Ernest Hemingway
described going bankrupt: grad-
ually, and then suddenly. Now, a new
rule establishing a national gateway for
Internet traffic strikes at one of the
nation’s last vestiges of democratic life.
Prime Minister Hun Sen has spent the
past several years turning his quasi-
authoritarian state with a weak opposi-
tion into a completely authoritarian state
with no opposition at all. After elections
in 2013 ushered too many critics of the
regime into government, the regime
dissolved their party and prosecuted its
leaders on trumped-up charges. The two
individuals who could challenge Hun Sen
have been disposed of: Sam Rainsy lives
in exile, and Kem Sokha is under indefi-
nite house arrest. Independent domestic
media has been shuttered, foreign media
has been ordered out, and the remaining
television and radio broadcasts are under
state control.
The Internet, however, has been more
difficult to pin down. Stifling dissent
within a country only goes so far when
dissent from outside is still in reach —
and right now, thanks to services such as
Google and Facebook, as well as myriad
news and other sites, it is. The sub-
decree signed last week by Hun Sen,
which requires all traffic to be routed
through a regulatory body, seeks to solve
this “problem” by funneling beyond-
borders content through a hub where
the government controls the switches.
That makes it easier to kill all interna-
tional access at once in a moment of
unrest. It also makes it easier to cut off
certain sites, or to use cutoffs as a cudgel
to force those sites into doing the
regime’s bidding. Facebook, for in-
stance, may be urged to crack down on
expression or to host data locally. The
regulatory body in question is also
tasked with monitoring online activity,
in a blow against privacy.
Cambodia’s plan is less sophisticated
than patron state China’s so-called Great
Firewall. Yet it is still a threat not only to
one nation but also to the entire globe.
China wishes to establish a freedom-
crushing model of cyber-sovereignty by
Money runs rampant in Virginia politics
Eight years after a major scandal, lawmakers still can’t get it right.
IGHT YEARS after a money-
E in-politics scandal mired a previ-
ously popular governor, Virginia
lawmakers still cannot manage to
enact ethical reforms that might convinc-
ingly demonstrate that public service is
not a free pass for lining their pockets.
Virginia remains one of just five states
where virtually anything goes with regard
to political contributions. Not only are
there few limits on campaign giving, but
also elected officials can use the money
they receive for anything.
And by anything, we mean . . . any-
thing. Nothing in state law stops elected
officials from draining their campaign
account for a trip to the grocery, a family
flight to the Caribbean, or, for that matter,
private school or college tuition.
We mention those last two — vacations
and private school tuition — because
those were among the expenses that led
to the conviction last year of a former
California congressman, Republican
Duncan D. Hunter, for using more than
$150,000 from his campaign account to
pay for them.
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EDITORIALS
ply chains noted that “a lack of critical
official data and information has imped-
ed U.S. policy makers’ ability to assess the
size and composition of the U.S. market
for specific products, and the overall
production capacity of U.S.-based pro-
ducers to satisfy various essential nation-
al needs.”
The lack of clarity may extend more
widely than that. The U.S. auto industry
has had to slow production recently due
to a shortage of semiconductors, trigger-
ing bipartisan concern on Capitol Hill,
which in turn prompted Mr. Biden’s
order. However, the shortage of chips is
not a uniquely American problem. It is
global, affecting all automakers in all
countries, and seems to be the unintend-
ed consequence of their decision last year
— reasonable at the time — to cut chip
orders in anticipation of declining sales
due to the coronavirus-related economic
slump. Chip producers diverted supply to
consumer electronics, and then car de-
mand exceeded forecasts.
Fortunately, a top General Motors offi-
cial has announced that the worst issues
should be over soon at his company.
When this accidental shortage ends, and
Police officers stand guard in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, last week.
which every country sets its own rules
for a Web that serves those in power,
rather than the people, without any
regard for civil liberties or due process
of law. The United States and its allies
presumably want the opposite. They
Mr. Hunter was spared a stay at a
federal correctional facility in West Texas
by a presidential pardon in December. For
similar conduct in Virginia, however, for-
mer delegate Timothy D. Hugo, a Fairfax
County Republican, broke no laws at all,
but did earn notoriety for his self-
generosity where it concerned his use of
campaign funds. Today, he is a candidate
for his party’s nomination for lieutenant
governor. (His former constituents may
not thrill to his candidacy; they dismissed
him from office in 2019.)
A bill this year in Richmond to limit
campaign expenditures to actual cam-
paigns was the latest of several such itera-
tions introduced in recent years. It sailed
through the House of Delegates and
passed on a vote of 100 to 0. This week it
died in the state Senate, where lawmakers
with furrowed brows determined its com-
plexities defied their legislative abilities.
Let it be studied further, several said, as
they deep-sixed it for yet another session.
This time, it was Democrats, in control
of both houses in Richmond, who did the
dirty deed. In the past, Republicans
RE
the time comes for policymaking, the
United States must avoid the temptation
to turn “national security” into an excuse
for protectionism. Various U.S. compa-
nies and their lobbyists already are en-
couraging this tendency in pursuit of
federal subsidies and other support. No
doubt government must help secure
U.S. supply chains, especially in critical
materials such as rare earths or lithium,
both crucial to battery production,
among other uses. Dependency on sup-
plies from adversarial countries such as
China presents more challenges, strategi-
cally, than buying from friends and allies
such as Taiwan, South Korea, Mexico,
Canada or Europe, however.
This crucial distinction is precisely the
one that President Donald Trump denied
in pursuit of his “America First” doctrine,
which lumped all U.S. trade partners
together as alleged exploiters of our
purportedly weak politicians. We expect
Mr. Biden’s review to reaffirm the more
nuanced reality: Mutually beneficial ex-
change among countries, conducted free-
ly within a legal framework, is the path to
maximum security, economic and stra-
tegic. Autarky, by contrast, is a dead end.
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should do something about it, in Cambo-
dia, where they and the companies at
risk can put pressure on Hun Sen to
reverse the order, and everywhere else.
A free Internet may be lost if democra-
cies don’t band together to fight for it.
applied the shiv. The result is the same: a
state notorious for flaccid laws and lax
rules that give rise to an anything-goes
approach to money in politics.
Over the years, state lawmakers’ facile
response has been: Oh, well, true, there
are no contribution limits — but we report
everything in the spirit of radical trans-
parency! If only. In fact, to take one exam-
ple, audit reports are so skimpy that there
is no way to divine in any detail how
campaign cash is spent.
The result is that campaign accounts
remain virtual slush funds, a fact that
good-government advocates (and this
page) have pointed out for nearly a dec-
ade.
The scandal that embroiled former
governor Robert F. McDonnell (R), in
2013, involved a favor-seeking business-
man who lavished the governor and his
then-wife with loans and gifts. It yielded
only minimalist reforms by state lawmak-
ers, and no fundamental new approach
on ethics. It’s no longer high time for a
rethink on ethics and money in politics in
Richmond. It’s past time.
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The drive for more highways
The Feb. 21 editorial “Mr. Hogan’s
expansive road vision” concluded that
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s (R) plan for
expanding Interstates 270 and 495 “is the
best feasible option.” Many informed
Maryland citizens oppose the governor’s
choice for expansion for sensible finan-
cial reasons. The choice of four new lanes
is not the result of thorough cost-benefit
analysis; it is what Mr. Hogan wanted
from the first. The impression of careful
choice is an illusion. If traffic returns to
pre-pandemic levels, most commuters
will not be able to afford the high tolls
levied during peak demand periods and
congestion on the free lanes will be high
again. But if traffic does not return to
pre-pandemic levels, the private partner
Transurban will not be able to recoup its
investment. The true capital cost of this
project will be far more than the oft-
mentioned $11 billion figure. This num-
ber is a back-of-the-envelope calculation
based on the cost of the Intercounty
Connector, which was built on mostly
semirural land. The beneficiaries of ex-
pansion include many out-of-state driv-
ers. Without other state or federal part-
ners, the Hogan plan distorts the match-
ing of costs and benefits.
This is why the Interstate Highway
System began with the Federal-Aid High-
way Act of 1956 that put the federal share
of costs at 90 percent of $24.8 billion.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower later
recalled: “Though I originally preferred a
system of self-financing toll highways . . .
I grew restless with the quibbling over
methods of financing.”
Myles Boylan, Silver Spring
The Feb. 21 editorial “Mr. Hogan’s
expansive road vision” unwisely assumed
a return to the pre-coronavirus normal;
an everyday commute to the workplace.
In that scenario, there are never enough
lanes and there are too many cars. The
lanes fill up, and we widen again.
The pandemic opened up possibilities.
We now know that many people can work
and meet from home. Yes, there are times
when we need to be physically together.
But it does not have to be every day.
The last time Interstate 270 was ex-
panded by 1990, the benefit was about
seven years. If highway public-private
partnerships work at all, it is for a
minuscule percentage of highway miles,
and only by ensuring enough misery that
wealthier people will pay the high rush-
hour tolls. How about a plan that would
benefit not only I-270 but all highways
and roads? We can incentivize employers
to allow people to work from home a few
days. Retail and other commerce are
already heading more heavily to the
Internet; how about for our many office
jobs? It would be far less expensive and
benefit everyone immediately.
Of two possible governmental plans,
one of widening highways and encourag-
ing car transit, the other of encouraging
family- and environmentally friendly
work-at-home 10 to 30 percent of time,
the latter is the plan that would work for
all highways and everyone.
Mark Pierzchala, Rockville
Hold China accountable
George F. Will’s call for action regard-
ing China’s egregious mistreatment of
the Uighurs was both timely and well-
grounded [“Biden’s sturdy resistance to
China,” op-ed, Feb. 21]. The argument for
international action in this instance is
even stronger than in the case of Berlin in
1936. Though Hitler’s writings and opin-
ions were well-known by 1936, the Nazis’
genocidal policies were still in the future.
The Nuremberg Laws depriving Jews of
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German citizenship, adopted in 1935,
certainly indicated the direction of Hit-
ler’s policies. Few anticipated a campaign
of extermination. Some Jews still man-
aged to escape the country.
The International Olympic Committee
awarded the Games to Berlin in April
1931, before Hitler’s 1933 appointment as
chancellor. Beijing was selected to host
the Winter Olympics in July 2015, when
the implications of China’s “Xi change”
were apparent. The “strike hard against
terrorism” campaign in Xinjiang began
in 2014. Since 2015, evidence of incarcer-
ation, torture, and cultural and physical
genocide has been overwhelming.
Despite the Nazis’ rhetoric and pol-
icies, Jesse Owens made a remarkable
personal demonstration against racism
in Berlin. Chinese President Xi Jinping is
not likely to accept anything comparable.
Governments that are fearful of China’s
reaction could shield themselves behind
the global coronavirus pandemic. Far
better would be to make it clear that a
nation aspiring to global leadership must
demonstrate a moral compass.
Harley Balzer, Cabin John
Hunt tigers with the right tool
Regarding the Feb. 22 front-page article
“Trump, allies face lengthy reckoning”:
If you go hunting tigers, bring a gun
capable of killing a tiger, not a peashooter.
It is the Democrats who are on trial for
using the impeachment tool, which is
fatally flawed because of partisan voting.
That only seven Republicans voted to
convict former president Donald Trump
is no surprise. The impeachment was over
before it began. The Democrats should
have learned last year that no matter how
guilty he was, the president’s party would
not convict him and remove him from
office or disallow him from taking office
again.
Democrats have cemented the princi-
ple that sedition is no longer a high crime.
There is currently no effective tool in the
United States for removing a president,
no matter how badly he acts. This lawless
situation puts the nation at high risk. The
United States may stay a democracy, or it
may become a dictatorship should a lead-
er arise who does not wish to follow the
laws of the land and the principles of
democracy. Or the nation may put in
place impartial tools for impeachment of
the president and regain its ability to
preserve democracy.
David Shapiro, Romney, W.Va.
More than a statistic
Regarding the Feb. 23 news article
“Biden honors victims amid staggering
toll, signs of hope”:
More than 500,000 people have now
died from the coronavirus and its compli-
cations. The staggering statistics belie
the reality that the friends and family of
more than half a million people are
grieving, shaking their heads wondering
how this could have happened; how the
response could have been so monumen-
tally mismanaged; how they can deal
with the loss of a person they loved.
My son is dealing with the loss of his
friend. I didn’t know her, but I know my
son loved her. They shared their college
days, confided in one another, partied
and laughed and supported one another.
I last saw her at my son’s wedding. She
talked to me kindly, laughed sponta-
neously and danced exuberantly. She was
a human being in her 40s, bright and
funny and caring. My heart breaks for her
family and friends. I am overwhelmed
thinking that she is one of 500,000 sto-
ries, not just a statistic.
Christina Bergman, Greensburg, Pa.
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EUGENE ROBINSON
It’s time to
stop waging
a War on
the Poor
I
n the 1960s, the federal govern-
ment marshaled its resources to
fight a “War on Poverty.” More
recently, however, we’ve been
fighting what amounts to a “War on the
Poor” — a sustained campaign of
denial and neglect that we can begin to
end by raising the federal minimum
wage to $15 an hour.
The current figure of $7.25 — un-
changed since 2009 — is so absurdly
low that the country effectively has no
federal minimum wage at all. As of
May 1, when Virginia’s minimum wage
rises, 29 states will mandate higher
wage floors. Assuming a 40-hour work-
week, a $7.25-per-hour rate adds up to
$290 before taxes. Try stretching that
to cover a week’s worth of food,
housing, clothing and transportation
for an individual, let alone a family. It
can’t be done.
Nor is it realistic to expect workers
to survive, much less thrive, on $10 an
hour, as Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah)
proposes, or $11 an hour, which
Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) would
prefer. The richest country on Earth
can surely afford to accept the follow-
ing proposition: Anyone who works a
full-time job should be able to afford at
least a working-class life. At less than
$15 an hour, that simply is not possible.
Republicans cite the principle of
federalism in arguing that states and
cities should be able to set their own
minimum wage levels according to
local conditions. Indeed, many states
do impose higher minimum wages,
and some cities, such as Seattle and
D.C., are on a path to $15. But five
states — Tennessee, Alabama, South
Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana —
have no minimum wage at all, meaning
employers are bound only by the
$7.25 federal standard. And Wyoming
and Georgia bizarrely set their mini-
mum wage at just $5.15; again, the
federal rule applies to jobs covered by
the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Federal policy recognizes that the
current minimum wage is not a living
wage. We help low-wage workers sur-
vive with tax credits, food assistance,
subsidized housing and other sorely
needed programs. But why the reluc-
tance to require employers to compen-
sate an honest day’s work with an
honest day’s pay?
Other important principles once
championed by the Republican Party
are being undermined by this hesi-
tance: Self-reliance. Self-respect. The
idea of work as its own reward. The
notion of idleness as damaging to self
and to society.
Setting a nationwide floor of $15 an
hour would require many employers to
fine-tune their business plans. The cost
of a Big Mac might marginally rise.
Yes, the Congressional Budget Office
estimates that 1.4 million workers
could lose their jobs, although many
other economists argue that the im-
pact on employment would be margin-
al or nonexistent. The CBO also esti-
mates that the net impact would be to
lift 900,000 Americans out of poverty.
Look beyond the fact that the feder-
al poverty level — a family of four
making a penny more than
$26,500 annually is not considered
poor — should really be called the
federal penury level. And leave aside
that a full-time, minimum-wage job
would earn only $15,080 per year.
Consider instead how seldom we even
talk about poverty today, as though the
poor have magically become invisible
or ceased to exist.
Activists are trying to get us to pay
attention. The Rev. William J. Barber
II, co-chair of the Poor People’s Cam-
paign, has been holding virtual and
socially distanced events across the
country — including in Manchin’s
home state — to argue that a $15 mini-
mum wage is a vital component of any
effective covid-19 relief package. “The
truth of the matter is it will lift millions
of people out of low wages and pover-
ty,” he says, taking a more realistic view
of where the poverty line should be
drawn than the federal government
does.
President Biden included the
$15 wage in his proposed relief legisla-
tion. But because the Senate parlia-
mentarian has ruled that the boost
cannot be approved through the ar-
cane “reconciliation” process requir-
ing only 51 votes, Democrats would
have to pursue it independently.
But I fail to see the political down-
side of supporting the measure for any
Democrats — or even for the few
reasonable Republicans left in the
Senate. Raising the minimum wage is a
popular idea; a Vox poll this week
showed that 62 percent of voters
support the relief bill’s plan for a
gradual increase to $15 by 2025. Some
of the nation’s biggest employers have
already made the move: Costco this
week announced that it would raise its
starting hourly wage to $16, outflank-
ing major corporate rivals. Small-
business owners would have four years
to adjust and adapt.
And the moral calculus could not be
clearer. A $15 minimum wage would
cost employers. Growing inequality
costs all of us even more.
Twitter: @Eugene_Robinson
Francesca Kaczynski after her first round of chemotherapy at Boston Children’s Hospital on Oct. 6, 2020.
Brain cancer killed my child.
Here’s how we can save others.
BY A NDREW K ACZYNSKI
t was a beautiful September day
I that began with a long, relaxing
walk across Brooklyn, my wife and
I taking turns pushing our 6-
month-old daughter, Francesca, in her
stroller. I remember thinking, “Life
couldn’t get any better than this.” But
that evening, Francesca started vomit-
ing uncontrollably. We raced her to the
emergency room.
There, scans showed Francesca had a
huge tumor obstructing the flow of fluid
in her brain. She was rushed into lifesav-
ing surgery, but the diagnosis was an
atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor, or
ATRT, the most common brain cancer
in infants and one of the deadliest.
We were shocked. Francesca was a
hearty girl who always seemed perfect-
ly healthy. She loved to smile, nap in
her carrier and watch “Sesame Street”
videos.
My wife and I are journalists, and
when Francesca got sick, we threw
ourselves into the worst reporting proj-
ect ever: learning everything we could
about this terrifying disease. Frances-
ca’s diagnosis will always be the divid-
ing line in our lives.
Every year in the United States, some
5,000 children are diagnosed with brain
tumors. Brain cancer has surpassed leu-
kemia as the deadliest form of child-
hood cancer, which is the No. 1 disease-
related killer of children under 15. De-
spite this, there has never been a drug
developed and approved specifically for
malignant pediatric brain tumors.
My wife and I learned that pediatric
oncologists and researchers have
worked tirelessly over decades to im-
prove the odds for the 58 people diag-
nosed with ATRT in the United States
every year. The rare cancer, which has a
five-year survival rate of only 32 per-
cent, but is nearly always a death sen-
tence for babies, was considered un-
treatable until a few brilliant oncolo-
gists discovered an extremely harsh
CATHERINE RAMPELL
The pro-work Biden agenda
onservatives who want to make the
C safety net more “pro-work” might
find the answer to their prayers in
an unexpected place: President
Biden’s economic agenda.
Republicans are — once again — whip-
ping themselves into a moral panic over
whether the social safety net is denigrating
the “dignity of work” and promoting col-
lective laziness. This echoes a similar
(though more bipartisan, overtly racial-
ized) mass hysteria in the 1980s and 1990s,
over the traditional welfare system and the
“queens” it supposedly coronated. This
recurred about a decade ago, when some
conservatives suggested that overly gener-
ous unemployment benefits had turned
the Great Recession into a “Great Vaca-
tion.” Then-congressman Paul Ryan
(R-Wis.) warned that the safety net was
becoming a “hammock.”
Today’s frenzy was sparked by proposals
to issue monthly payments to families with
children, even if the parents have very low
or no earnings. These “child allowances”
have the potential to lift millions of kids,
disproportionately children of color, out of
poverty. Democrats, urged by Biden, put a
temporary version of this proposal in their
covid-19 relief bill. Once Sen. Mitt Romney
(R-Utah) released a version of the proposal,
child allowances appeared to have a bipar-
tisan path forward.
But other Republicans were swift to
denounce the effort. Giving money to poor
parents with no strings attached would
breed idleness, they warned. Sen. Marco
Rubio (R-Fla.) protested that sending per-
child payments to “everyone, with no work
requirement, is welfare,” and that “being
pro-family means being pro-work.”
My feeling is: It’s not so terrible if $250 a
month gives a single mom the freedom to
forgo the occasional night shift and instead
be home for bedtime. But Republicans
appear to believe the primary goal of eco-
nomic policy is to promote work, and spe-
cifically additional work hours for the poor,
EZ
regimen of chemotherapy and radia-
tion that could save some children.
These ATRT treatments require
families to spend months in the hospi-
tal, and they still often fail to eliminate
the cancer. The few kids who do survive
often have major long-term side ef-
fects, including seizures, cognitive
problems and difficulty walking.
The current treatment is hell, but
when it’s your daughter’s only chance,
you take it. Francesca required six sur-
geries — five on her brain and one to
put in a stomach tube for feeding. My
wife and I watched her suffer the in-
tense chemotherapy’s side effects —
uncontrollable vomiting, intense pain
and awful digestive system sores.
One night, Francesca had emergen-
cy brain surgery because she developed
meningitis as a complication of an
earlier surgery. Another night, she had
seizures following a brain surgery.
The chemotherapy drugs wipe out
the immune system, making children
highly susceptible to infections from
typically innocuous bacteria and fun-
gus in the environment. That’s what
happened to Francesca during her
third round of chemotherapy. She
caught a fungal infection that her little
body couldn’t fight off.
She went into septic shock and spent
her last month of life sedated on a
ventilator. We couldn’t hold her as she
slowly succumbed to the infection. We
sat next to her, holding her hand those
horrible weeks.
She passed away on Christmas Eve.
Our family’s horrific saga is the reali-
ty of pediatric cancer. Many families
we’ve met have suffered the same fate
or are suffering it now.
Improving outcomes won’t be sim-
ple. Sadly, given the small market of
patients, it’s unlikely that a profit-driv-
en industry will develop a miracle drug
for pediatric brain cancers. Instead,
fixing the world for our babies will
require more of everything: more
funding from the National Cancer In-
whenever possible.
Given this priority, one wonders: Why
haven’t Republicans been pushing harder
to expand the parts of the safety net that
support work?
For instance: access to reliable, afford-
able child care, which has traditionally
been a Democratic priority.
For many parents, lack of child care is a
major obstacle to maintaining a job. The
limited child-care system that exists has
been battered by the pandemic. Biden’s
American Rescue Plan would devote great-
er resources to rebuilding and expanding
this critical pro-work infrastructure.
Similarly, paid family leave, which every
other rich nation already guarantees,
could help keep parents (particularly
mothers) attached to the workforce. For all
our cultural fetishization of work, the
United States lags behind other developed
nations in prime-age women’s participa-
tion in the labor force; one apparent rea-
son, according to a study from Cornell
economists, is that other countries have
done more to mandate expansions of fami-
ly-friendly policies, including paid paren-
tal leave and part-time work
arrangements.
These countries seem to have more
“hammock”-like safety nets, by Republi-
cans’ reckoning, yet do a better job of
trampolining working-age women into
jobs.
Access to medical care also helps work-
ers remain healthy enough to maintain
employment. In recent years, however,
Republicans have pushed policies that
reduce Medicaid access for low-income
people, arguing that public insurance
should be reserved for those who prove
their worth by having already logged suf-
ficient hours. This gets the relationship
between health coverage and employ-
ment backward: Access to health care
supports work, particularly for those with
chronic conditions.
Better public transportation — a goal of
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FAMILY PHOTO
stitute, the Defense Department’s Peer
Reviewed Cancer Research Program
and the Rare Cancers Research Pro-
gram; stronger requirements for the
pharmaceutical industry to share
drugs with pediatric oncologists; and
improved data-sharing.
Because of a lack of interest from
pharmaceutical companies, the federal
government and charities fund most of
the research in this area. Pediatric on-
cologists have told me they spend con-
siderable time looking for funding.
Clinical trials cost millions of dollars
and take years.
Legislation has been passed to try to
incentivize drug companies to work on
drugs for children, but pediatric oncol-
ogists still say that access to drugs
remains a major challenge and that
they are often brushed aside by drug
companies.
The drugs are also extremely costly.
Requiring the industry to provide re-
searchers free access to their approved
and premium-priced drugs could help
enterprising oncologists identify
promising drugs developed for adult
cancers that may work on pediatric
brain tumors.
We also need to centralize data so
doctors can more easily detect patterns
among patients. The top hospitals see at
most a handful of children each year
with diseases such as ATRT. My wife
and I longed to have the data available
to make better-informed decisions for
our daughter. A federally funded cen-
tral registry for pediatric brain tumor
data is one straightforward solution.
Children with cancer touch a special
place in people’s hearts. We’ve received
so many incredible messages of support
from total strangers that we will always
cherish. And yet, as a society, we have
failed to put our best resources together.
Let’s start now. We don’t have time to
waste.
Andrew Kaczynski is an investigative
reporter and founder of CNN’s KFile Team.
“Amtrak Joe’s” infrastructure plan —
would likewise increase people’s ability to
reliably get to and from work, particularly
among lower-income people who are less
likely to own cars.
Raising the returns to work — through
some combination of higher minimum
wages and government subsidies (such as
an expanded earned-income tax credit) —
would also make work more attractive.
Particularly for those facing, say, a two-
hour commute on multiple buses and ex-
pensive half-day child care to make a mea-
sly $7.25 an hour.
In other words: Instead of making pov-
erty more painful, Republicans could pro-
mote ways to make jobs more accessible,
available and rewarding. As the Biden
agenda does.
What about those Biden-endorsed child
allowances? Yes, probably some parents
will cut back their work hours, though not
enough to substantially offset the policy’s
impact on poverty reduction, according to
estimates from the National Academies of
Sciences. In any case, that doesn’t mean
the policy is, on the whole, “anti-work” —
particularly given the effect on children in
those households.
Research on a 20th-century “Mothers’
Pension” program found that poor kids
whose families received similar, uncondi-
tional cash payments went on to have
higher income as adults. There is a whole
literature, summarized by economists
Hilary Hoynes and Diane Whitmore
Schanzenbach, documenting the ways
that investing in kids helps them have
better economic outcomes as adults, in-
cluding higher employment rates and
earnings. Yet rarely do “pro-work” Repub-
licans advocate higher food stamps, educa-
tional spending or other safety-net invest-
ments that enable kids to grow up to be
more productive workers.
It’s almost as if this whole “pro-work”
moral panic isn’t about work at all.
crampell@washpost.com
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DAVID IGNATIUS
How to handle
a ‘friendly’
authoritarian
cairo
he Biden administration is strug-
T gling to reconcile two inescapable
truths about Egypt: It’s an impor-
tant friend and ally of the United
States. And it has a repressive govern-
ment that violates basic human rights.
This paradox — of “friendly” authori-
tarian regimes that are modernizing their
countries but suppressing their citizens
— has haunted U.S. foreign policy in the
Middle East for a generation. President
Biden and his team are making a new
start, after four years when human rights
issues were largely ignored by his
predecessor.
Let’s hope the Biden team gets it right,
because Egypt matters. What makes
sense to me is a continuous, constructive
engagement on the ground. Lecturing
Egypt from afar or threatening weapons
bans may make congressional critics feel
as though they’ve accomplished some-
thing. But this approach risks producing
a lose-lose outcome, with no progress on
human rights and diminished security for
both countries.
An early sign of the Biden administra-
tion’s desire to embed human rights is-
sues in the alliance came Monday, when
U.S. Central Command leader Gen. Frank
McKenzie met with President Abdel
Fatah al-Sissi and both sides discussed
the topic. McKenzie was the first senior
official to meet with Sissi since Biden took
office. “Human rights issues should be
important to us all the time,” McKenzie
said later in an interview.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken rein-
forced the message Tuesday with a call to
his Egyptian counterpart, Foreign Minis-
ter Sameh Shoukry. “The Secretary raised
concerns over human rights, which he
emphasized would be central to the
U.S.-Egypt bilateral relationship,” said
State Department spokesman Ned Price.
Because the Washington debate focus-
es on human rights issues, observers
often miss the fact that the Egyptian
economy is accelerating even as its politi-
cal system remains stuck in a ditch. The
country grew at a healthy 2.7 percent last
year, according to a U.S. official based in
Cairo, despite the coronavirus pandemic.
Tech businesses are flourishing — grow-
ing at what the U.S. official says is a
17 percent annual rate — as the hide-
bound and bureaucratic system gives way
to digitization.
“We just have a lot of skin in the game
here,” argues the U.S. official. “There are
many good stories of cooperation here in
trade, education, water, health, security
and regional issues.” But these aspects of
the partnership are often overlooked.
Driving past the glittering neon dis-
plays that line Cairo’s highways, I was
reminded of traveling in China. Ikea and
other megastores cater to a growing
Egyptian middle class; glitzy billboards
lure families to leave the dense neighbor-
hoods of old Cairo and buy villas in
suburban developments with names like
Hyde Park. A visitor senses the Chinese
tradeoff at work here: Give us your free-
dom and we’ll give you prosperity.
Sissi is a frustrating puzzle. He has
achieved reforms that eluded his pred-
ecessors, cutting subsidies for energy and
other basics and encouraging investment
in new infrastructure and economic de-
velopment. But he governs like a general,
not a president. He jails critics, muzzles
the media and uses fear of Muslim ex-
tremism as an excuse to suppress any
political opposition. And the overfed
Egyptian military still weighs heavily on
the economy, controlling giant state-run
businesses that crowd out entrepreneurs.
Sissi’s defenders contend he has made
progress on some social issues. Egypt’s
Coptic Christians appear more secure
than they were a decade ago, and Sissi
makes a show of attending Christmas
services most years. Women’s rights have
advanced, too, with women now mandat-
ed to hold 25 percent of the seats in
parliament.
Egypt’s defensiveness may be partly a
reaction to the disorientation of the past
decade. The Tahrir Square revolution in
2011 swept away the repressive govern-
ment of President Hosni Mubarak and
briefly brought the Muslim Brotherhood
to power. A counterrevolution in 2013
installed Sissi.
“Egyptians tell us they are suffering
from something like PTSD. Two revolu-
tions in 10 years is a lot,” explains the
U.S. official. During the tumult, he says,
Egyptians feared they might lose their
country to the chaos that was shattering
Libya, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Women
feared their daughters would live in an
Islamic theocracy.
Biden’s human rights drive will suc-
ceed only if it’s grounded in local action,
rather than hectoring from afar. As the
United States urges the release of political
prisoners, it can also offer training for
Egyptian lawyers, grants to improve de-
tention facilities, programs for women’s
business empowerment — all as part of a
regular, high-level dialogue on human
rights.
The United States needs a strong, suc-
cessful Egypt, and the proud, prickly Sissi
needs the United States, too. Russia and
China simply aren’t viable alternatives in
building the modern country that Egyp-
tians want.
The United States’ best leverage is
deepening its stake in a healthy, progres-
sive Egypt, even as it holds Sissi account-
able for observing international norms
on the rights of his people.
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Push to overhaul policing splits Md. Democratic lawmakers Raises

BY O VETTA W IGGINS

Maryland’s historic push to

transform how police do their
jobs and are disciplined has creat-
ed a rift in the General Assembly’s
Democratic caucus, with some
members of the party’s left flank
concerned the bills don’t go far
enough.
Sen. Jill P. Carter (D-Baltimore
City), who has pushed unsuccess-
fully for police reform for years,
said recent changes in her bill to
repeal the Law Enforcement Offi-
Some contend measures
to increase accountability
fall shy of what’s needed
cers’ Bill of Rights removed a key
component sought by social jus-
tice advocates: community over-
sight.
The legislation advancing to
the Senate floor, she said, is only a
“smidgen” better than the bill of
rights, which critics say hinders
police investigations and shields
wrongdoing from public scrutiny.
“If Maryland cannot bring it-
self to truly abolish this statute . . .
it’s Maryland’s huge shame,” Cart-
er said.
Lawmakers who supported the
amendments said they maintain
officers’ right to due process while
still removing the country’s oldest
and strongest police-protection
statute. Maryland is one of at least
16 states that have enacted a po-
lice bill of rights since 1974. Since
then, experts say, no state has
repealed one.
Sen. William C. Smith Jr. (D-
Montgomery), chairman of the
Judicial Proceedings Committee,
said the legislation delivers on
three key points that advocates
have long pushed for: citizen in-
volvement in discipline, a single
node of accountability and re-
sponsibility, and an assurance
that police unions can’t develop
their own disciplinary policies
during the collective bargaining
process.
“This bill accomplishes all
three of those things,” Smith said.
The measure is part of a pack-
age of policing bills that will move
part of
to the Senate floor as soon as
Friday. They include legislation to
develop a statewide use-of-force
policy, require body cameras
budget
statewide, change the Maryland
Public Information Act to make
police complaints available to the
public, and restore local control
deal
of the Baltimore City police de-
partment.
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TO VOTE SATURDAY
Improving finances
in state smoothed path

BY G REGORY S . S CHNEIDER

richmond — Virginia House

and Senate negotiators have
reached agreement on a two-year
state budget that would provide
5 percent pay raises for teachers,
state employees, university em-
ployees and state-supported local
employees.
Largely completed late
Wednesday night, the $135 billion
spending plan would also give
state police an 8 percent pay raise
and bonuses based on years of
service, measures aimed at shor-
ing up chronically low pay that
has led to retention problems.
Reaching a deal became easier
early this month when Gov.
Ralph Northam (D) announced
that state tax revenue was run-
ning $730 million higher than
expected, which created room for
the Democrats who control both
chambers of the General Assem-
bly to fund the broad increases in
pay.
Pay raises for teachers and
state workers had been planned a
year ago when Virginia’s econo-
my was flush but were put on
hold in the summer after the
coronavirus pandemic prompted
a vast economic shutdown.
The new money reflects a
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES faster-than-expected rebound for
Vice President Harris watches a woman receive a coronavirus vaccination at the pharmacy of a Giant Foods in Southeast Washington on Virginia’s economy, as well as the
Thursday. She is joined by Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (center, rear) and D.C. Health Director LaQuandra Nesbitt (right, rear). benefit of millions in pandemic
relief money from Washington.
“I am extremely happy with the

Sign-ups jam D.C. vaccine registration way it came together, given the
SEE VIRGINIA ON B2

Website freezes, then spaces fill up, on first day of eligibility for residents with underlying conditions
Md. reveals
BY A NTONIO O LIVO,
L OLA F ADULU AND
New cases in region vaccinating elderly residents and essential workers
in certain occupations.
preliminary
Through 5 p.m. Thursday, 3,191
M ICHAEL B RICE- S ADDLER
new coronavirus cases were
reported in the District, Maryland
By 10:40 a.m., all 4,350 appointments available
Thursday for the newly eligible category of residents toll ranges for

A
glitch in the District’s coronavirus vaccine
registration system caused it to freeze up
Thursday amid a flood of submissions on
and Virginia, bringing the total
number of cases to 990,570.
the first day of eligibility for people in
D.C. MD. VA.
hard-hit areas who have underlying
health conditions. +179 +976 +2,036
On a day when Vice President Harris showed up to 40,122 379,466 570,982
observe vaccinations inside a Southeast D.C. phar-
macy, an unknown number of qualified residents Coronavirus-related deaths
were locked out from registering for an appoint- As of 5 p.m. Thursday:
ment. City health officials blamed “a technical re-
view failure,” which sparked more confusion in what D.C. MD.* VA.**
has been a frustrating vaccination process in the +4 +16 +156
Washington region. 1,005 7,805 7,963
D.C. residents with underlying conditions who
live in Zip codes targeted because of their high rates * Includes probable covid-19 deaths
of infections became eligible to register at 9 a.m. ** Virginia covid-19 deaths increased
Thursday. But many of them couldn’t, receiving an after including a backlog of processed
erroneous message indicating the city was still only death certificates.
had been booked. The Health Department said
Thursday afternoon that the problem was fixed and
announced that an extra 3,500 appointments would
HOT lanes
be available to newly eligible residents on Saturday,
on top of 4,350 slots available Friday. BY K ATHERINE S HAVER
The Saturday appointments were made possible
by setting aside vaccine doses that had been allotted Motorists using high-occupan-
for next week, officials said. cy toll lanes planned for the
“We know how stressful of a time this is, and we Capital Beltway and Interstate
regret that this unfortunate situation occurred on a 270 in Maryland would pay an
day when many of our residents with chronic health average of $4 to $5 for a typical
conditions were newly eligible for vaccination ap- weekday trip, according to pre-
pointments,” D.C. health officials said in a statement. liminary toll rate ranges released
The statement added that the Health Department is Thursday.
working to build extra capacity on the portal to Higher rates during peak
handle the “tens of thousands of residents newly hours would amount to an aver-
eligible for the vaccine this week.” age of $7 during the southbound
The appointments were supposed to have gone to morning rush and up to $11
SEE REGION ON B2 northbound in the evening, with
estimates based on a seven-mile
trip, according to the Maryland
Transportation Authority. Driv-
ing the entire 12 miles of the first
planned segment — between the
Virginia side of the American
Legion Memorial Bridge and I-
370 in the Rockville-Gaithers-

Rwandan family’s peace is upended burg area of Montgomery County

— during the evening commute
would cost an average of $18.60.
Tolls generally would be high-
In yoga classes, in surviving on chicken feed after out loudly and emphatically as er in the peak direction during
downtown D.C. her parents were slaughtered. the daughter of Paul the commuting rush because
dance clubs, in She isn’t the target of Rwandan Rusesabagina, manager of the they would increase along with
her spreadsheet of spies hunting her famous family place known as the Hotel traffic congestion to keep the
the city’s newest in Belgium. She isn’t Hutu or Rwanda. She is fighting for his lanes free-flowing.
restaurants that Tutsi. release after an astonishing plot The authority’s board, which
Petula she and her 20- She’s a Georgetown University last year that whisked him out of sets toll ranges in the state, heard
Dvorak something friends graduate, class of ’15. She’s a his safe haven in San Antonio to details of the preliminary rates
frequent, Anaïse smiling face on LinkedIn, a Dubai, then bound and Thursday but won’t vote on a
Kanimba found normalcy. And Digital Solutions Senior blindfolded on a private plane — final proposal until the fall, after
anonymity. Associate. according to the lawsuit she filed the authority holds hearings and
“Here in D.C., I am my Until last week, when she was in December against the Greek solicits public comments, offi-
authentic self,” she said. “It is my thrown back into a familiar fear aviation company that provided cials said.
home now.” and terror, watching her the plane — back to Kigali, where Deborah Sharpless, the au-
In Washington, she isn’t the adoptive father stand trial, he was imprisoned and is now on thority’s chief financial officer,
terrified orphan the world wept accused of terrorism by the trial. stressed that toll ranges are sub-
for in an Oscar-nominated home nation where the story of “There’s nothing else that I FAMILY PHOTO ject to change.
movie. She isn’t the toddler his heroism unfolded. could be doing right now but Anaïse Kanimba, right, is lobbying for the release of her adoptive “We’re just sharing our current
hiding from a massacre while Kanimba, 29, is now speaking SEE DVORAK ON B3 father, Paul Rusesabagina, center, of “Hotel Rwanda” fame. SEE TOLLS ON B8
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Va. teachers to get
5% raise in deal
VIRGINIA FROM B1
fact that we are in the midst of a
pandemic,” said Del. Luke E. Tori-
an (D-Prince William), chairman
of the House Appropriations
Committee.
With many small businesses
continuing to suffer, House and
Senate negotiators also compro-
mised on a plan allowing employ-
ers who received federal aid to
avoid paying taxes on some of the
assistance payments.
Under the agreement, busi-
nesses will not face state taxes on
expenses up to $100,000 that
were covered by the federal Pay-
check Protection Program or sim-
ilar state grants. That relief
amounts to just under half of a
$221 million package of coronavi-
rus-related tax relief for individu-
als and businesses, including for-
giveness of taxes on PPP loans
and extended deductions for
charitable contributions.
About $78 million in federal
and state funds are aimed at
purchasing personal protective
gear to protect public safety offi-
cials against the coronavirus. And
roughly $109 million in federal
funds are aimed at helping ad-
minister coronavirus vaccine and
boosting communication about
the health crisis.
The budget agreement in-
cludes $443 million to protect
K-12 school systems against loss-
es brought about by the pandem-
ic, plus $40 million to help pro-
vide for summer programs as
schools begin to reopen. An addi-
tional $50 million would fund
extra support staffers at public
schools, such as social workers,
psychologists and nurses.
In addition, a “cost of compet-
ing” adjustment that helps school
systems in high-cost areas such as
Northern Virginia will be funded
at 18 percent, up from the
10.6 percent that had been pro-
posed, at a total cost of $14.6 mil-
Newly eligible D.C. residents struggle to access vaccine registration website
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residents who live in priority ar-
eas, mostly in Wards 5, 7 and 8,
and who have certain underlying
conditions. Those conditions in-
clude asthma, chronic lung dis-
eases, congenital heart disease,
diabetes, liver disease, HIV, sickle
cell disease, and intellectual and
developmental disabilities.
Residents in the targeted Zip
codes who are pregnant or obese,
with a body mass index higher
than 30, also are newly eligible.
However, many of them were
unable to get through to the
Health Department’s registration
site Thursday, fueling anxieties in
a region where health officials are
worried about another surge of
infections after several cases of
more-transmissible coronavirus
variants have been detected in
recent weeks.
“Every screen kept failing,” said
Jenn Kauffman, 41, who has asth-
ma and set several alarms before
the 9 a.m. window for the new
registrations so she could be
ready to sign up.
Kauffman, who lives in one of
the target Zip codes in Northwest
D.C., said she finally secured an
appointment by phone just before
the city announced all slots had
been taken.
The District, Maryland and Vir-
ginia on Thursday recorded 3,191
new coronavirus infections, a
slight jump amid what has been a
decline in cases across the region
in recent weeks. That downward
trend prompted Virginia Gov.
Ralph Northam earlier this week
to lift some restrictions on mass
gatherings. Among other things,
Northam (D) raised the limit on
outdoor gatherings from 10 to 25
people and allowed outdoor en-
tertainment venues to operate at
30 percent capacity.
In Maryland, officials opened
the state’s third mass vaccination
site Thursday, administering sev-
eral hundred doses at a clinic
inside Baltimore’s M&T Bank Sta-
dium. Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said
the number of shots available
there soon will climb to 2,000
each day.
“It’s going to be a big boost to
our statewide efforts,” Hogan
said, adding that recent declines
in caseloads are an encouraging
sign amid a desire to further lift
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lion.
Higher-education facilities
would get $40 million to help
offset staffing needs and reduce
pressure on tuition.
Thanks to the extra tax rev-
enue, the compromise budget
also includes total payments of
about $900 million into the
state’s reserve funds — $250 mil-
lion more than had been request-
ed by Northam. Reserves will
total $2.1 billion by the end of
2022, a stockpile aimed at pre-
serving the state’s coveted AAA
bond rating.
Almost $15 million is set aside
to cover the cost of new bills
passed by the House and Senate
that require the sealing of some-
one’s criminal record after nine
years for a number of drug-relat-
ed and misdemeanor crimes.
One key initiative that sur-
vived the budget process but has
yet to win legislative approval is a
mechanism making it easier for
health-care workers and first re-
sponders to qualify for workers’
compensation payments if they
were infected with the coronavi-
rus in the line of duty.
The House has passed two bills
allowing the workers a presump-
tion that their illness from the
coronavirus was work-related if
they dealt directly with infected
people, and made the benefit
retroactive to the beginning of
the pandemic last March. One
bill, sponsored by Del. Chris
Hurst (D-Montgomery), focuses
on health-care workers. The oth-
er, sponsored by Del. Jerrauld
“Jay” Jones (D-Norfolk), address-
es first responders such as fire-
fighters.
The Senate resisted making
the benefit retroactive, for fear
that the potential cost could be
excessive. Virginia has a private
workers’ compensation system,
funded by employer contribu-
tions. Estimates put the potential
cost to employers in the range of
People take photos as Vice President Harris visits the pharmacy of a Giant Foods grocery store in Southeast Washington on Thursday to
highlight the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program, which delivers vaccine doses for the elderly directly to 7,000 pharmacies nationwide.
restrictions.
Anne Arundel County Execu-
tive Steuart Pittman (D) did so
Thursday, aligning his county
with state guidelines that allow
establishments that had been lim-
ited to 25 percent capacity to go
up to 50 percent.
But coronavirus-related deaths
in the region have continued,
with the District passing the 1,000
mark this week and Mayor Muriel
E. Bowser (D) announcing that
her older sister Mercia Bowser
was among the latest fatalities.
On social media Thursday,
scores of newly eligible D.C. resi-
dents who had scrambled to get a
vaccine appointment complained
they were not able to do so, either
online or through the Health De-
partment’s call center.
Several residents who contact-
ed The Washington Post said it
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State Sen. Emmett W. Hanger Jr. (R-Augusta) at his desk Wednesday after a floor session in Richmond at the Science Museum of Virginia,
where the Senate is convening because of the pandemic. House and Senate negotiators largely completed a budget deal late Wednesday.
$12 million to $15 million, though
the public cost of covering first
responders is uncertain.
The budget agreement in-
cludes $2 million for workers’
compensation for state employ-
ees, anticipating that some form
of retroactive coronavirus pre-
sumption will be passed.
Hurst and Jones have made an
all-out final push over the past
few days.
“If we can’t do this for our
heroes, what the hell are we even
doing here?” Hurst said Thurs-
day, with conferees from the
appeared as if the city had not
updated its registration options
to include those with underlying
conditions.
Sandra Nelson, whose family
lives in a priority Zip code just
north of Petworth, said she and
two friends tried multiple times
Thursday morning to register her
husband, Jack Nelson, who has
diabetes, for a vaccine appoint-
ment.
Each time they tried, a message
on the registration website in-
formed them that Nelson, 43, was
not eligible.
Sandra Nelson said her family
has been on edge throughout the
pandemic, restricting themselves
to seeing a select group of friends,
including one family whose 17-
year-old daughter has a chronic
lung condition and neurological
disorder that also make her more
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“I am extremely happy
with the way it came
together, given the fact
that we are in the midst
of a pandemic.”
Del. Luke E. Torian
(D-Prince William), chairman of the
House Appropriations Committee
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
vulnerable.
“We’ve been really looking for-
ward to the vaccine,” Nelson said.
“Obviously, we need to be extraor-
dinarily careful, all of us.”
The confusion unfolded as Har-
ris visited a Giant pharmacy in
Ward 8 to tout the Biden adminis-
tration’s Federal Retail Pharmacy
Program, which delivers vaccine
doses directly to 7,000 pharma-
cies nationwide to cover elderly
residents in broader swaths of the
country.
Harris offered words of encour-
agement to Brenda Thompson,
69, as she received her second
dose in a predominantly Black
neighborhood of Southeast Wash-
ington hit hard by the virus but
that has among the city’s lowest
vaccination rates. Just 1,650 el-
derly Ward 8 residents have re-
ceived at least one dose so far,
BOB BROWN/RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH/ASSOCIATED PRESS
House and Senate still working
on ironing out some kind of
agreement on the measures.
At least 17 other states and
Puerto Rico have approved a
workers’ compensation presump-
tion for front-line workers in the
fight against the pandemic, and
most of those were retroactive,
according to a survey by the
National Coalition of State Legis-
latures.
On Thursday, negotiators
reached agreement on Hurst’s
bill for retroactive coverage of
health-care workers, sending it
compared with 7,511 in more afflu-
ent Ward 3, city records show.
“I get to see my great-grand-
son,” Thompson said with her
hands together after getting her
shot.
She hasn’t seen the 5-year-old
since last summer, she said. He
keeps asking when the two will
reunite.
“So there’s so many reasons to
get vaccinated, right, so we can all
get back to seeing all of our family
members and being together,”
Harris said.
Thompson, who lives in Ward
6, said she initially was unable to
register online.
She first tried to book an ap-
pointment on her phone because
her computer wasn’t working, but
she said it was too difficult. So, the
next time appointments were
available, she woke up early and
. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 , 2021
back to the House and Senate for
a vote in the next two days.
Jones’s bill was still being dis-
cussed.
The deal between Senate and
House negotiators will be taken
up by both chambers on Satur-
day. Approving a budget is usual-
ly the last major item on the
docket for a General Assembly
session. Once that is done, this
year’s session will be able to
adjourn — although for procedur-
al reasons, the actual adjourn-
ment is scheduled for Monday.
gregory.schneider@washpost.com
drove to her brother’s house to use
his computer as appointments be-
came available. It took two tries.
“I want to live,” Thompson said.
“I got it because I want to live.”
That yearning fueled Thurs-
day’s frustrations over the city’s
frozen registration portal.
Susana Castillo, a Bowser
spokeswoman, said the portal
was overwhelmed by the huge
influx of registrations.
“It’s just high volume, a lot of
traffic in the website,” Castillo
said. “It’s not that we didn’t up-
date the website with the option
of medical conditions.”
City lawmakers disputed that
assessment, saying it seemed
clear the online portal had not
been updated.
“From the message people were
getting, I know [they] didn’t up-
date the website, because the
message was old — it says we’re
only doing over 65 and particular
employee groups, which is not the
case,” said D.C. Council member
Christina Henderson (I-At Large),
who received a flurry of emails
and texts Thursday from frustrat-
ed constituents. “So if you updat-
ed the website and you didn’t
update this message, it wasn’t a
complete update.”
Council member Elissa Silver-
man (I-At Large) said she also
heard from several residents who
were unable to successfully regis-
ter Thursday. She asked city offi-
cials how they will be better pre-
pared for a similar influx of resi-
dents trying to make appoint-
ments Friday.
“D.C. Health keeps saying it’s
volume — and I know at this point
from what people have showed
me that’s not accurate,” Silverman
said. “It’s clear the system was not
updated. . . . They need to give
answers; we need to understand
what will happen tomorrow.”
District residents with under-
lying health conditions in the fol-
lowing Zip codes are eligible to
register for appointments: 20422,
20011, 20017, 20018, 20002,
20001, 20019, 20020, 20032 and
20593.
antonio.olivo@washpost.com
lola.fadulu@washpost.com
michael.brice-
saddler@washpost.com
Ovetta Wiggins and Erin Cox
contributed to this report.
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Metro police say changes underway THE DISTRICT

Review of practices part
of effort to address
community concerns
BY J USTIN G EORGE
The Metro Transit Police De-
partment is making strides in ad-
dressing community concerns
about policing, its chief said
Thursday, highlighting efforts to
rewrite policing standards, re-
view past internal investigations
and improve transparency.
Metro Transit Police Chief Ron-
ald A. Pavlik Jr. updated Metro
board members on a slew of com-
mittees working to improve the
department’s relations with Black
and diverse populations, which
have strained after controversial
arrests and claims of abuse in
recent years.
Since last year, police have been
confronted with allegations they
used excessive force to detain a
13-year-old “horse-playing” with a
friend inside a Metro station and
the revelation that officers held a
short-lived and unsanctioned
competition to see who could
make the most arrests.
The contest supported the be-
liefs of many Black Metro custom-
ers who have attributed dispro-
portionate arrests and interac-
tions with police to internal pres-
sures on officers to meet arrest
quotas.
The death of George Floyd in
Minneapolis set off protests
against police departments across
the nation and in Washington,
while also prompting Metro
board members to call for greater
equity in policing.
In June, the Metro police union
sent Pavlik a memo that indicated
officers’ performances were
judged on “quantitative metrics,”
although Pavlik publicly denied
that the department set arrest and
enforcement goals.
The memo, which called for an
end to quota-based officer evalua-
tions and certain stop-and-ques-
tion tactics, prompted the union
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The Metro Transit Police, with the help of committees, is working to improve relations with Black and
diverse populations, which have strained after controversial arrests and claims of abuse.
and Pavlik to set up committees to
evaluate police practices and hir-
ing. The Metro board also created
an independent panel to review
how police investigate abuse, mis-
conduct and excessive force by
transit police.
Critics said the panel, which
includes four appointees with no
policing background and three
law enforcement members from
unaffiliated departments, lacked
authority to discipline and fire
officers. But board members said
the panel could benefit the depart-
ment through recommendations
to Pavlik and the Metro board.
In November, panel members
were given training on documents
and cases they are reviewing while
meeting on a monthly basis.
“So far, the meetings are run-
ning very good, and they’re start-
ing to share feedback and will
report back to the board in a time-
ly manner,” Pavlik said.
He did not say what type of
feedback the group provided.
Metro officials said Pavlik wasn’t
available later Thursday to dis-
cuss the findings.
With schools restarting in-per-
son learning, Pavlik said he also
has been working with D.C. Public
Schools and city officials on im-
proving relations and interac-
tions between police and youth.
Metro board vice chairwoman
Stephanie Gidigbi-Jenkins said
she supported those talks as
schools reopen and more in-per-
son classes are expected this fall.
“I also am encouraged by the
work that you’ve been able to do
with the superintendent’s office,
with D.C., and trying to ensure
that we’re connecting with young
people, recognizing that that’s a
group in which we have seen in
the past the area of opportunity to
strengthen relationships,” she
said.
Pavlik said an internal commit-
tee working on updating the de-
partment’s general orders —
which govern police tactics and
day-to-day operations — have
been updated and should be final-
ized by next month. The depart-
ment also issued training bulle-
tins on the limits the Fourth
Amendment sets for stop-and-
question tactics.
Citing the pandemic, Pavlik
said police have not been able to
make much progress in de-escala-
tion training.
“Unfortunately, we’ve only
RICKY CARIOTI/THE WASHINGTON POST
been able to do some of this virtu-
ally when most of this training is
actually required with hands and
physical contact,” he said. “Due to
covid, we can’t accomplish most of
this training because of the re-
strictions and the [personal pro-
tective equipment] we would have
to wear.”
A group of officers looking into
improving ethical training and
peer support has helped several
officers undergo courses in ethics,
Pavlik said. The committee is also
finalizing a general order that will
strengthen ethics and peer sup-
port, he said.
Pavlik said transit police con-
tinued to work toward hiring
more Black and female officers,
which was a union goal. He said
the department is consulting with
an outside firm on recruitment,
but hiring across all law enforce-
ment is down.
He said transit police are short-
staffed by about 10 percent.
“We hope this will make more
progress as we go on,” he said.
“One of the challenges is the effort.
We’re doing everything virtually.
We’re not attending job fairs like
we used to.”
justin.george@washpost.com
Head of D.C. Lottery
resigning job
D.C. Lottery Executive Director
Beth Bresnahan has resigned
from her post and will depart
Friday, officials confirmed
Thursday.
Bresnahan, who became
lottery director in 2018, will go
home to Massachusetts to tend to
family issues that can no longer
be handled from a distance, said
David Umansky, a spokesman for
the city’s Office of the Chief
Financial Officer.
Journalist Tom Sherwood first
tweeted about Bresnahan’s
resignation, which she submitted
in January.
Nicole Jordan, a spokeswoman
for D.C. Lottery, did not return an
email or a phone call Thursday
requesting comment.
— Michael Brice-Saddler
MARYLAND
D.C. teen, 15, shot and
killed in Pr. George’s
A 15-year-old from the District
was fatally shot Wednesday
evening in Prince George’s
County, police said Thursday.
On Wednesday at around
5:30 p.m., officers responded to
the 4400 block of Arnold Road in
Suitland, Md., for the report of a
shooting, Prince George’s County
police said in a statement. They
found 15-year-old Rhyce Wingate-
Bey suffering from gunshot
wounds, and he died at a hospital,
the statement said.
No further information about
the shooting was immediately
available.
Police asked anyone with
further information about the
shooting to contact them at
301-516-2512.
There have been 20 homicides
in Prince George’s County so far
this year, according to
The Washington Post’s homicide
database.
— Justin Wm. Moyer
Bowie man charged in
fatal shooting of guard
Police charged a Bowie, Md.,
man with fatally shooting a
security guard in Riverdale Park.
Desmond Mbah, 24, who was
in custody Thursday, has
confessed to shooting
Riyadh Al Janabi, a 23-year-old
from Rockville, Md., Prince
George’s County police said in a
news release.
Mbah has been charged with
first- and second-degree murder
and carjacking, among other
charges, and he is being held
without bond.
Court records did not list an
attorney for Mbah.
Just after 8 p.m. Feb. 11,
Prince George’s police and
Riverdale Park police responded
to an apartment complex parking
lot in the 5400 block of
54th Avenue to investigate a
possible carjacking, authorities
said.
They found Janabi with
multiple gunshot wounds. He
was pronounced dead at a
hospital.
Police said Janabi had been
working as a security guard at the
apartment complex. His four-
door sedan was stolen after he
was shot.
— Emily Davies and Katie Mettler
Three people dead, two
injured in house fire
Three people died and two
people were injured in a house
fire Wednesday in
Hagerstown, Md., officials said.
Few details were immediately
available.
The Office of the Maryland
State Fire Marshal said in a
Twitter message that the blaze
broke out just before 7 p.m.
Wednesday in the 300 block of
Linganore Avenue near
North Burhans Boulevard.
Hagerstown is about 80 miles
northwest of Washington, D.C.
More than 65 firefighters
responded, and one was treated
for minor injuries, according to
the city fire marshal’s office.
Officials did not say whether
the home had working smoke
alarms, and the names of the
victims were not released,
pending notification of their
families. Authorities also said
they didn’t know the extent of the
injuries of those who were
injured.
The cause of the fire remains
under investigation.
— Dana Hedgpeth

Family of ‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero fights for his release

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working to get him back,” she
said. “It is my destiny . . . I was
brought to Washington, D.C., for
some reason, and this must be
it.”
Kanimba became known to
the world in 2004 when the
movie “Hotel Rwanda” rattled
the Western world into
understanding the enormity of
the Rwandan genocide 10 years
earlier. It’s told through the story
of Rusesabagina, the manager of
a four-star hotel in the Rwandan
capital of Kigali, who sheltered
about 1,200 people behind the
hotel’s walls while at least
800,000 were massacred across
the nation.
Two of those killed were
Kanimba’s parents. Biologically,
Kanimba is Rusesabagina’s
niece. At the end of the film, as
the hotelier, his wife and son are
rescued and about to be
evacuated to Belgium, they find
the orphaned Kanimba and her
younger sister in a refugee camp
and adopt them.
Kanimba was just 2 years old
during the war and remembers
none of it.
“It’s a weird feeling not to have
those memories,” she said from
her D.C. home. “On the one
hand, it allowed me to move
forward and to live my life. But I
think my parents were 28 or 29
when they were killed — my age
now. I wish I could remember his
face and her face.”
She didn’t know she was
adopted by the Rusesabaginas
until she was 6 years old. They
told her what she needed to
know, but didn’t cloud her
childhood with the brutal stories
of slaughter in the streets. She
learned most of that when she
was 12 and saw the movie.
“I hated the movie,” she said.
It was the first time she had
pictures in her mind of Kigali,
the massacre, the brutality.
She’s learned more about that
time since then.
“I learned in the last couple of
years that my dad died in the
very first week or so of the
genocide,” she said. “My mother
died four or five weeks in. And
I’ve heard stories of how we
The Hotel des Mille Collines in Kigali, Rwanda, in 2006. More
than a thousand people took refuge here during the 1994 genocide.
Rwanda and the enemies he’s
made, she wouldn’t be safe
visiting.
The film made Rusesabagina
the world’s most famous
Rwandan. He used his platform
— nights with Hollywood stars,
the U.S. Presidential Medal of
Freedom, audiences yearning to
understand the nation’s conflict
— to continue advocating for
human rights and peace inside
his home country and criticizing
Paul Kagame, the rebel leader
who became president.
While Kagame became the
West’s darling, receiving massive
amounts of aid, Rusesabagina
said the president began skewing
toward authoritarianism. The
former hotelier became an
opposition leader in exile and a
thorn in Kagame’s side.
Then their home in Belgium
was ransacked, prompting their
move to the United States,
Kanimba said. Her parents
settled in San Antonio, where
they have some Rwandan
friends, and found peace and
safety in a gated community.
Last summer, Rusesabagina
received an invitation to speak
with faith leaders abroad.
Kanimba and her sister helped
their dad, who is 66 and recently
battled cancer, find a good flight
with limited layovers, good
coronavirus protocols and a
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said they had a warrant accusing
him of inciting violence during a
2018 speech when he said: “The
time for us has come to use any
means possible to bring about
change. . . . It is time to attempt
our last resort.”
Some of the armed subgroups
of his followers did launch
attacks on Rwandans that left
several people dead. But the
international community has not
drawn a line directly from
Rusesabagina to the violence,
and has resoundingly
condemned his arrest. Human
Rights Watch called it an
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done much of the legwork on
that campaign after it became
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freeing political prisoners across
the globe, would not help a
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horrified to see her dad — always
an impeccable dresser — in such
debilitated condition.
“Seeing him in the pink.
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. . . and he lost about 40 pounds,”
she said. “I thought: ‘That’s not
him. That’s not my father.’ ”
The family believes their last
hope is President Biden. If Biden
shows support for Rusesabagina,
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He steals show with
clapback at colleagues
during postal hearing
BY M EAGAN F LYNN
His fists were pounding. His
index fingers were pointing. And
his arms, at least at one point,
were outstretched as Rep. Gerald
E. Connolly yelled, “I’m an admit-
ted Democrat, and I’m damn
proud of it!”
It was the start of Connolly’s
latest impassioned monologue,
during a crucial hearing on postal
reforms. He accused Republican
colleagues of “gaslighting” after
they said Democratic outrage at
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy
— and attempts to remove him —
were politically motivated.
Connolly’s retort: “I didn’t vote
to overturn an election, and I will
not be lectured by people who did,
about partisanship!”
The Virginia Democrat is
known for this type of acerbic
skewering, delivered with fierce
body language. He did it the last
time DeJoy appeared before the
House Committee on Oversight
and Reform, too.
But this time, Connolly also
directed the diatribe at his col-
leagues. For part of Wednesday
afternoon, and at least in the
sound-bite-hungry world of Twit-
ter, his dressing-down of Republi-
cans stole the show. He later
shared footage of his tirade in a
tweet that was retweeted more
than 16,000 times within several
hours.
“Sorry,” Connolly wrote in the
tweet. “You lose the right to com-
plain about partisanship once
you’ve fanned the flames of vio-
lent insurrection.”
At the hearing, Connolly oscil-
lated between giving Republican
THE REGION
U.S. Park Police gets a new leader
BY T OM J ACKMAN
Pamela A. Smith, a longtime
commander of the U.S. Park Po-
lice, was named the permanent
chief Thursday by the National
Park Service and said she would
immediately move to implement
body-worn cameras for a depart-
ment that currently has no camer-
as in its cars or on its officers.
Smith, 53, replaces former
chief Robert D. MacLean, who
was promoted in August 2019 to
head the Interior Department’s
Office of Law Enforcement and
Security. The acting chief job was
assumed by Maj. Gregory Mona-
han, who will return to his post as
assistant chief when Smith takes
the chief’s position on Sunday.
Smith has been a Park Police
officer for 23 years, and she be-
comes the first African American
woman to lead the agency in its
230-year history. Park Police offi-
cers are stationed in parks in and
around Washington, D.C., New
York City and San Francisco. As a
major, she was the first woman to
lead the New York field office, and
she has also served as deputy chief
of the Homeland Security Divi-
sion and the Field Operations Di-
vision.
The Park Police have been un-
der scrutiny since November 2017
for their handling of the fatal
shooting of an unarmed motorist
in Fairfax County, Va., by two
officers. Bijan Ghaisar, 25, was
shot four times as he tried to
maneuver his Jeep Grand Chero-
kee away from Officers Lucas Vin-
yard and Alejandro Amaya. After
federal prosecutors declined to
charge the officers in 2019, Fairfax
THE DISTRICT
Latest request to pause
eviction filings is denied
BY K YLE S WENSON
As landlords and property
owners continue to challenge as-
pects of the District’s eviction
moratorium, a judge has rejected
the city’s latest request on behalf
of tenants to pause the eviction
process as the challenge works
through the legal system. Howev-
er, eviction filings are unlikely to
resume any time soon.
On Feb. 19, D.C. Superior Court
Judge Anthony Epstein released
an order denying a motion filed
by District Attorney General Karl
A. Racine (D) asking him to stay a
ruling he made in December al-
lowing eviction filings to move
Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.) grew passionate during a Wednesday hearing by the House Oversight and Reform Committee on postal
reforms, telling Republicans, “I didn’t vote to overturn an election, and I will not be lectured by people who did, about partisanship!”
colleagues a tongue-lashing and
casting doubt on the ability of the
U.S. Postal Service’s leader to ad-
dress serious mail slowdowns
amid a precarious financial situa-
tion.
He asked Ron Bloom, chair-
man of the postal Board of Gover-
nors, if board members were still
“tickled pink” with DeJoy’s per-
formance, as one GOP board
member had told senators in Sep-
tember.
And when Bloom replied that
DeJoy and the board had a sound
plan in progress, Connolly said:
“Respectfully, I disagree, and I
Says she will implement
body cameras in a force
that doesn’t use them
County Commonwealth’s Attor-
ney Steve Descano obtained man-
slaughter indictments last fall
against the two officers, which are
pending. The officers have said
they fired because they feared
Ghaisar was about to run over
Amaya.
The officers were not wearing
body cameras, and their marked
SUV did not have a camera. No
Park Police officers or vehicles are
equipped with cameras. The
shooting was captured by an in-
car camera of a Fairfax County
police lieutenant who followed
the officers’ pursuit of Ghaisar
down the George Washington Me-
morial Parkway into a residential
neighborhood, where the officers
fired 10 shots into Ghaisar’s SUV.
The Fairfax police chief released
the video over federal authorities’
objections.
Smith said in a news release
that she would establish a body-
worn camera program for the
Park Police within 90 days. She
said it would begin in San Francis-
co, which she said had 42 employ-
ees, and be implemented in Wash-
ington and New York by the end of
the year.
“Body-worn cameras are good
for the public and good for our
officers,” Smith said in the release,
“which is why I am prioritizing
implementing a body-worn cam-
era program within my first
But tenants are still
protected with citywide
moratorium in effect
forward.
In the latest decision, Epstein
ruled the city did not prove that
allowing the eviction process to
move ahead would hurt tenants
because the city and advocates
“have not shown that a stay would
prevent harm.”
The city’s eviction moratorium
— which was enacted by D.C.
Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) and
EZ RE
hope President Biden disagrees
as well and that we take action to
replace the Board of Governors
with people who care about the
Postal Service and can be commit-
ted to their job of oversight and
accountability.”
He then yielded his remaining
time.
At that point, nearly two hours
had elapsed in the hearing.
Claims of partisanship were run-
ning high — tethered to President
Donald Trump’s rhetoric and De-
Joy’s actions in a politically fragile
time ahead of the election.
Back then, DeJoy unveiled
90 days. This is one of the many
steps we must take to continue to
build trust and credibility with
the public we have been entrusted
to serve.” She said in an afternoon
news conference that “I antici-
pate this will be broadly wel-
comed by the members of our
agency.”
Kenneth Spencer, president of
the Park Police’s Fraternal Order
of Police labor committee, said
that he and his predecessors had
been pushing Congress and de-
partment leadership for cameras
for years. He said devising pol-
icies for camera use and data
storage, for reviewing and releas-
ing footage and other issues “is
going to take awhile, but it’s great
that it’s finally happening. The
officers are ready for it.”
U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) and
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
(D-D.C.) have introduced a bill
requiring all uniformed federal
police officers to wear body cam-
eras. It was incorporated into a
larger crime bill last year and has
passed the House but not the
Senate. No Justice Department
officers use cameras, and only
park rangers use them within the
Interior Department, officials
have said.
Smith’s predecessors did not
publicly discuss Ghaisar’s case.
After launching the investiga-
tion of the shooting and exclud-
ing Fairfax police, then-Chief
MacLean handed the case over to
the FBI and refused to talk about
it. Monahan continued that policy
during his tenure as acting chief.
More than three years after the
shooting, the Park Police have not
started an internal investigation
the D.C. Council in response to
the coronavirus pandemic — is
one of the strongest such provi-
sions in the country. Not only
does the moratorium prohibit
physical removal of tenants but it
also blocks landlords from filing
evictions against tenants.
The judge noted that although
the matter at hand involved the
city’s moratorium on eviction fil-
ings, the city’s freeze on physical
eviction will keep them in their
homes. “Even if there is no stay,
the moratorium on actual evic-
tions would remain in place and
prevent evictions,” Epstein wrote.
“It’s not a game-changer, but
it’s a step in the right direction,”
said Aaron Sokolow, an attorney
representing the landlords in the
case. “It’s something that land-
lords can look to for hope to have
some judicial remedy eventually.”
The moratorium is scheduled
to stay in place until 60 days after
sweeping cost-cutting measures,
and Democrats accused DeJoy of
seeking to slow — and thus sabo-
tage — mail-in voting.
A federal judge blocked the
service changes, saying DeJoy
and Trump were engaging in a
“politically motivated attack” on
the agency.
But Republicans on the Over-
sight Committee said Wednesday
that it was Democrats who were
guilty of sabotage, accusing them
of exaggerating their complaints
about DeJoy in an effort to oust
him.
“We’ve got to get away from the
Pamela A. Smith is the first African American woman to lead the U.S. Park Police in the force’s
230-year history. She said the body-worn-camera program would be established within 90 days.
of the case, pending the resolu-
tion of the criminal case against
Vinyard and Amaya.
In the news conference, Smith
said she was working in New York
when the Ghaisar killing oc-
curred, and that “I want to convey
my deepest condolences to the
Ghaisar family.” She said that she
hadn’t been involved in the case
but “one of my first priorities as
chief of police is to be briefed as to
what occurred” and that she was
“certainly looking forward to pro-
viding a response.”
The Ghaisar family issued a
statement Thursday saying that
“After more than 3 years of silence
and lack of leadership, we hope
that Chief Smith will bring a new
era of integrity and transparency
to the Park Police with an empha-
the city leaves a state of emergen-
cy. The earliest that could happen
is May — too late, say landlords,
who argue that without access to
the court, they can’t remove bad
or violent tenants putting other
residents at risk.
“Really our biggest concern is
that we believe this is a violation
of the landlords’s First Amend-
ment access to the court,” said
Randi Marshall, the vice presi-
dent of government affairs at the
Apartment and Office Building
Association of Metropolitan
Washington.
“The First Amendment allows
parties to have grievances to peti-
tion the government. But land-
lords don’t have that ability. Say-
ing that someone can’t file an
eviction in the court, that’s a step
too far.”
That was the crux of the lawsuit
landlords filed in the fall chal-
lenging the constitutionality of
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attacks and allegations that are
unfounded,” said Rep. Jody Hice
(R-Ga.), who is one of the purvey-
ors of unfounded claims of fraud
in the 2020 election.
“It was all a charade,” Rep. Jim
Jordan (R-Ohio) said of Demo-
crats’ complaints about DeJoy’s
performance. “It was all part of
the predicate for laying the
groundwork for the mail-in bal-
loting and all the chaos and con-
fusion the Democrats wanted.”
Enter Connolly.
“All the gaslighting we just
heard does not change the facts,”
he began.
sis on the safety of the community
at large.” The family called on
Smith to begin the internal inves-
tigation of the case and fire the
two officers.
Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.)
issued a statement supporting
Smith’s body-camera initiative.
“It’s been more than three years
since Bijan Ghaisar was shot and
killed by U.S. Park Police,” Warner
said, “and his family is still search-
ing for answers to understand
what happened to their son and
brother that day. While nothing
will bring Bijan back, I am glad to
see the new leadership of the Park
Police taking steps that could help
avert more needless tragedies.”
The Park Police were also criti-
cized for their role in forcefully
clearing protesters from the area
the filing moratorium. In Decem-
ber, Epstein agreed, noting that
with the physical eviction mora-
torium in place, tenants were still
protected, and in effect, his ruling
was only allowing the eviction
process to begin and would im-
pact only around 500 cases.
The District appealed the deci-
sion, arguing that the safety of
tenants was at risk because many
would self-evict upon receiving
an eviction filing.
“While the Superior Court’s de-
cision does not affect the morato-
rium on eviction proceedings or
other tenant protections, we
know that many residents may
leave their homes in response to
an eviction filing, whether out of
fear, pressure, language barriers,
or a lack of awareness regarding
their rights,” Racine said in a
January news release. “That’s ex-
actly what we need to prevent
during this public health emer-
. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 , 2021
He turned to a witness, Mark
Dimondstein, the president of the
American Postal Workers Union,
and asked: “Am I making this up?
As Mr. Jordan apparently would
have you believe? That the presi-
dent of the United States last
summer publicly said voting by
mail would lead to massive fraud?
. . . Or am I imagining that?”
Dimondstein obligingly re-
called the time last year Trump
said he would block emergency
relief funding to the Postal Serv-
ice so that it did not have the
money or the resources to carry
out universal mail-in voting.
“That wasn’t a Democratic nar-
rative,” Connolly said, before not-
ing he was proud to be a Demo-
crat. “That was a Republican nar-
rative by the president of the
United States and his enablers.”
Pointing to the federal judge’s
finding that DeJoy and Trump
were engaging in a “politically
motivated attack,” Connolly in-
sisted, “We didn’t make that up.”
Earlier this month, Connolly
was among 80 Democratic law-
makers who called on President
Biden to fill three vacancies on
the Postal Service’s Board of Gov-
ernors, which has the power to
remove or appoint a postmaster
general.
By the end of Wednesday’s
hearing, Biden had appointed
two Democrats and a voting
rights advocate to fill those seats.
If the Senate confirms the nomi-
nees, the board could tilt Demo-
cratic, which would make it more
likely to seek DeJoy’s ouster.
“My hope is the newly consti-
tuted Board will do the right thing
and bring in a new, qualified
Postmaster General,” Connolly
said in a statement Wednesday in
response to the news.
meagan.flynn@washpost.com
Jacob Bogage, Hannah Denham and
Christopher Ingraham contributed to
this report.
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
around Lafayette Square before
President Donald Trump walked
through the area on his way to St.
John’s Church during social jus-
tice demonstrations on June 1,
2020. Monahan testified before
Congress to defend his officers’
actions.
Smith said Thursday that she
felt Park Police officers “followed
established procedures and regu-
lations during the civil unrest.”
Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.),
whose Natural Resources Com-
mittee held a hearing in Septem-
ber on the lack of cameras by the
Interior Department, said that
Smith’s announcement “didn’t
come in a vacuum. . . . This is what
serious oversight can accom-
plish.”
tom.jackman@washpost.com
gency.”
The D.C. Court of Appeals is-
sued an automatic stay, effective-
ly stopping Epstein’s ruling from
taking effect while it takes up the
case. The District also asked Ep-
stein for a separate stay on evic-
tion filings while the appeal
works its way through the courts.
That request was the subject of
the Feb. 19 ruling.
In that decision, Epstein noted
the District did not offer proof of
“an increase in morbidity and/or
mortality” tied to eviction filings
or that “filing of eviction cases
causes tenants to self-evict.”
He wrote: The “District has not
offered such a study, and its con-
tention that conducting hearings
in eviction cases would increase
morbidity and mortality due to
COVID-19 amounts to specula-
tion based on a handful of anec-
dotes of limited relevance.”
kyle.swenson@washpost.com
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 , 2021
MARYLAND
Statewide
exams are
mandated,
scaled back
BY D ONNA S T. G EORGE
Even as the pandemic has
upended so much of school life,
one rite of spring will go on as
before in Maryland: standard-
ized testing.
But this year, the exams will
be shorter and limited to math
and English, under a plan ad-
opted this week by the Mary-
land State Board of Education.
State officials said students
in third grade to eighth grade
and high school will be tested,
whether they are learning in
person or virtually.
The exams they take — called
MCAP tests, for Maryland Com-
prehensive Testing Program —
are new assessments, but they
will not affect student grades or
graduation requirements, or be
used for school accountability
purposes.
“It is important that we pro-
vide teachers and families a
reliable way of understanding
how students are progressing
on their grade-level standards,”
said Karen B. Salmon, state
superintendent of schools.
State officials cut the length
of the test by two-thirds, but
math testing will still take 2.6
hours and English language arts
4.6 hours. The testing period
will extend until June.
Salmon said the state is still
working on details related to
taking the test remotely. Stu-
dents in Maryland have taken
computer-based tests for years,
but at their schools. Last
spring’s tests were canceled.
State board members voted
to request that state officials
make a concerted effort to fur-
ther scale back testing.
Rose Maria Li, a member
from Montgomery County,
urged the state to explore
whether it is possible to test on
the same content with fewer
questions, in less time.
“There may be ways, for ex-
ample, to reduce the math to,
say, 90 minutes instead of 2.6
hours and find ways to calibrate
it so that . . . it actually captured
similar information.”
Other board members ex-
pressed similar concerns.
“I just worry about children
and teachers and classroom
management, and glitches that
are ongoing with all of the
technology that children have,”
said Joan Mele-McCarthy, from
Calvert County.
State officials said that teach-
ers will get results on machine-
scored tests within 48 hours
and that hand-scored items will
be updated in real time. In fall
2021, scaled scores and levels
will be released.
Teachers have complained in
the past that standardized test
results are often so delayed that
they are no longer useful in
helping to guide instruction.
Federal officials said this
week that they are not forgoing
requirements for standardized
exams for the tumultuous 2020-
2021 school year but said they
would offer greater flexiblility
about how the tests are given.
Many educators had hoped
for full waivers, as happened
last year, when the tests con-
verged with the early months of
the pandemic.
School system officials and
advocates had testified earlier
during Tuesday’s state board
meeting.
Cheryl Bost, president of the
Maryland State Education Asso-
ciation, the state’s largest teach-
ers union, said that in such a
stressful year for students, they
need time to reconnect with
educators and classmates at
school, not spend hours on tests
they have never seen before.
“They need instructional time,
not testing,” she said.
Jack Smith, schools superin-
tendent in Montgomery County,
the state’s largest system, said
that while a waiver of all state
standardized testing would be
best, “if the assessments are to
be given, they should be consid-
erably reduced in length and in
the time it takes to administer
them.”
In an interview Wednesday,
Cynthia Simonson, president of
the Montgomery County Coun-
cil of PTAs, said she anticipated
parents would question wheth-
er state officials at least tried to
get a waiver for all standardized
testing and whether each school
will need a certain percentage
of students to take the tests.
“Some might refuse to partic-
ipate, especially if they are
participating remotely,” she
said.
donna.stgeorge@washpost.com
. THE WASHINGTON POST
Md. Democrats divided over policing legislation
POLICE FROM B1
“This will probably be one of
the most significant . . . transfor-
mative reforms in policing that
we’ve seen in the General Assem-
bly, potentially ever,” said Senate
President Bill Ferguson (D-Balti-
more City).
In the House of Delegates, a
different police accountability
proposal, backed by House Speak-
er Adrienne A. Jones (D-Balti-
more County), is being discussed
in a public safety subcommittee.
Jones’s omnibus bill includes the
repeal of the bill of rights but also
a body camera requirement, a
use-of-force policy that bans no-
knock warrants except under “ex-
igent circumstances” and bans
chokeholds, and other changes.
It is Jones’s top legislative pri-
ority, and therefore will pass out
of her chamber. But a 90-member
coalition of social justice advoca-
cy groups is hoping to make
changes before it reaches the
House floor, including amend-
ments put forward by Del. David
Moon (D-Montgomery) and other
members of the public safety sub-
committee.
Moon said the subcommittee
has already approved one of his
proposals, which would prohibit
local unions from bargaining
with their departments over
whether officers must use body
cameras. Other lawmakers are ex-
pected to offer amendments in-
cluding a higher bar for when
officers can use force — changing
the standard from “objectively
reasonable” to “necessary.”
The subcommittee will bring
the changes to the House Judici-
ary Committee, which will decide
how to amend the bill. Any differ-
ences in what is passed by the
House and the Senate probably
will get hammered out in a con-
ference committee.
The final legislative product
will be a test of where Maryland
stands in the nationwide police
reform movement that gained
traction after the death of George
Floyd in Minneapolis last year. It
will also signal of whether the
younger and more diverse Gener-
al Assembly has the power to
push their leaders — including
Jones — to the left.
“It is unfortunate that these
issues have divided the House —
Democrats from Democrats and
Democrats from Republicans —
when our ultimate goal is the
same: equal treatment for every
Marylander, safe communities,
and public confidence in law en-
forcement to respect each of us
and our neighbors in the same
way,” Jones told the House Judici-
ary Committee earlier this
month.
Amid a wave of social justice
protests in Maryland and across
the country last year, the coalition
of police accountability advocacy
groups — which includes the
ACLU of Maryland, Leaders of a
Beautiful Struggle, the NAACP
and the Concerned Coalition of
Mothers, a victims’ rights group
made up of mothers who have lost
a child to police violence —
formed and created five priorities
for the 2021 legislative session.
They included broadening the
public information law, removing
police officers from schools, en-
acting a statewide use-of-force
policy and returning the Balti-
more City police department to
local control.
At the top of the list was repeal-
MARYLAND
Author, activist Wes Moore weighs a campaign for governor
BY E RIN C OX
Author and activist Wes Moore
said in a statement that he is “seri-
ously considering” running for
governor of Maryland in 2022,
with a wide-open race expected to
attract a crowded Democratic
field.
Moore, who said he was un-
available for an interview
Wednesday, is reaching out to
community leaders and having
conversations with family and
friends about launching a bid for
the nomination.
“This is a moment where we are
facing unprecedented challenges
that we must come together to
solve,” Moore said in the state-
ment. “As I prepare to step down
as CEO of the Robin Hood Foun-
dation in the next couple months,
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Police stand guard during demonstrations in Baltimore in May 2015 after the death of Freddie Gray. Democrats have introduced bills that
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ing the police bill of rights.
“It is the primary mechanism
that blocks the ability for there to
be substantive community over-
sight,” said Dayvon Love, the di-
rector of public policy for Leaders
of a Beautiful Struggle, a Balti-
more-based grass-roots think
tank promoting Black empower-
ment.
Love said the coalition never
imagined that the legislature
would support a repeal, let alone
that Jones herself would sponsor
a bill and declare it her top legisla-
tive priority.
Once that became clear, mem-
bers of the coalition began look-
ing at what should replace the
statute.
They backed Carter’s Senate
bill, which would have given po-
lice chiefs — rather than a three-
person trial board made up of
police officers — the power to
discipline officers for wrongdo-
ing. The bill also would have al-
lowed local jurisdictions to create
civilian oversight panels, which
would have the same power as the
chief to impose discipline.
During its debate, the Senate
Judicial Proceedings Committee
got rid of the proposal to create
civilian oversight panels. Instead,
it kept a version of the trial
boards, renamed the administra-
tive charging committees and
now made up of two civilians and
an officer. The panels would de-
cide whether an officer should be
administratively charged, and
recommend discipline.
Sen. Michael A. Jackson (D-
Prince George’s), the sponsor of
the amendment, is a former sher-
iff and former president of a local
Fraternal Order of Police. While
Carter said the bill does not have
much value without the option of
fully civilian oversight commit-
tees, Jackson said public input
would come from the addition of
civilian members on the charging
committee.
His amendment passed 8 to 3.
The committee also added
I’m reflecting on my experiences
and the path forward.”
Moore’s potential plans were
first reported by the website
Maryland Matters.
Earlier this month, Moore an-
nounced that in May he would end
his four-year tenure at the New
York City-based Robin Hood
Foundation, a nonprofit group
that works on anti-poverty mea-
sures. Moore, who lives in Balti-
more, has not held public office
but is well known among the
state’s power brokers.
Moore, who has a background
in finance, is also an Army vet-
eran, a Rhodes scholar and former
leader of BridgeEdU, a nonprofit
that helps disadvantaged students
get into college. He has written
several books, including a best-
seller, “The Other Wes Moore,”
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2020 PHOTO BY MICHAEL ROBINSON CHAVEZ/THE WASHINGTON POST
House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones’s bill also includes a body camera
requirement and a use-of-force policy that bans chokeholds.
amendments that mirror protec-
tions contained in the police bill
of rights: allowing disciplinary
records to be scrubbed after a
certain period and prohibiting
complaints against officers from
being used as evidence in admin-
istrative or court proceedings if
the officer was exonerated, or if a
disciplinary hearing determined
that the charges were unsus-
tained or unfounded.
The police union supported all
those changes. It argued strongly
against Carter’s proposal to give
police chiefs so much power over
disciplinary decisions, saying
that could result in unfair deci-
sions, including against minority
police officers.
At least two members of the
Judicial Proceedings Committee
said they received calls from
Black police officers urging them
to reject the bill because of those
concerns. The Black officers also
asked the committee to approve
an amendment allowing officers
to participate in political activi-
ties and hold second jobs without
having to disclose the additional
income, said the lawmakers, who
spoke on the condition of ano-
Wes Moore, chief executive of the Robin Hood Foundation, an anti-
poverty nonprofit group. speaks at Howard University in 2019.
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nymity to discuss the behind-the-
scenes lobbying. The committee
approved those amendments as
well.
Jones’s House bill originally
called for keeping trial boards —
or administrative charging com-
mittees — in place, with a man-
date that one-third of its mem-
bers are civilians. She now wants
to increase the makeup to two-
thirds civilians.
David Rocah, senior staff attor-
ney for the ACLU of Maryland,
told the Judiciary Committee ear-
lier this month that Jones’s bill is
flawed because it leaves the door
open for counties “to replicate or
be even worse than the current”
bill of rights.
The coalition, which strongly
opposed most of the changes to
Carter’s Senate bill, is hoping to
influence the debate in the House.
“We’re disappointed . . . but the
fight is far from over,” said the
ACLU’s public policy director,
Caylin Young.
Moon, who served on Jones’s
police reform work group last
summer and fall, said he under-
stood why many of his colleagues
like the idea of giving disciplining
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power to police chiefs, whom they
see as being accountable to elect-
ed officials and residents.
“It sets up a very clear line of
authority,” he said. But Moon also
said there could be a downside,
especially in small departments
across the state, where there is
little oversight of how a chief
operates.
“What I’m hearing is that peo-
ple want an independent and ci-
vilian-controlled disciplinary
process,” he said, adding that he
hopes to figure out a compromise.
Republicans in the Senate have
argued that the nature of police
work requires special protections
for officers who put themselves in
danger every day. They have also
questioned the need for broad
changes in police accountability
measures — despite the emer-
gence of protests against police
brutality in rural areas last year,
and the high-profile 2018 death in
police custody of Anton Black, an
unarmed 19-year-old, on Mary-
land’s Eastern Shore.
“I do not believe that the entire
state of Maryland is reaching out
and screaming about police re-
form,” said Sen. Jack Bailey (R-St.
Mary’s). “This is not a topic in my
district.”
When Republicans accused
Democrats of simply doing the
bidding of social justice advo-
cates, Carter pushed back.
“Year after year after year we
have heard from hundreds, hun-
dreds, hundreds of families, im-
pacted families of victims of po-
lice brutality who have begged for
us to do something,” she said after
a recent vote. “This is absolutely
not about what advocates want.”
Then Carter continued, calling
out the names of family members
across the state who have a lost
loved one. “I’m legislating for peo-
ple like Greta Willis, Towanda
Jones, Chris Brown, LaToya Hol-
ley, Darlene McCain and the fam-
ily of Anthony Anderson,” she
said.
ovetta.wiggins@washpost.com
that chronicles the disparate lives
of two men with the same name.
Democrats outnumber Repub-
licans by a 2-to-1 margin in Mary-
land, but the party has lost three
out of the past five governor’s rac-
es. Gov. Larry Hogan (R) is term-
limited, and Democrats are eager
to reclaim the governor’s man-
sion.
Comptroller Peter Franchot (D)
has announced plans to run for
the job. Other potential Demo-
cratic contenders include Prince
George’s County Executive Angela
D. Alsobrooks, Baltimore County
Executive John A. “Johnny” Olsze-
wski, former U.S. education secre-
tary John B. King, U.S. Reps An-
thony G. Brown and David Trone,
and former Democratic National
Committee chair Tom Perez.
erin.cox@washpost.com
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DEATH NOTICE

obituaries CARPENTER
ROBERT A. CARPENTER
USN Captain (Ret.)
Robert Alphonsus Carpenter, born in Windsor,
Canada on July 23, 1941, passed away unex-
pectedly in Arlington, VA on February 2, 2021.
AHMED ZAKI YAMANI, 90 Bob grew up in a raucous, loving household
in New Jersey. After college, he joined the
U.S. Navy. Intending to just fulfill his initial

Led Saudi Arabia through 1973 oil embargo

BY J ON G AMBRELL
Ahmed Zaki Yamani, a long-
serving oil minister in Saudi Ara-
bia who led the kingdom through
the 1973 oil crisis that shattered
the West and once found himself
held hostage by the assassin Car-
los the Jackal, died Feb. 23 in
London. He was 90.
Saudi state television reported
the death but did not give a cause.
Known for his Western-style
business suits and soft-spoken,
measured tones, Mr. Yamani
helped Saudi Arabia command a
dominating presence in the Or-
ganization of the Petroleum Ex-
porting Countries from its birth.
The kingdom remains a heavy-
weight in OPEC even today, and its
decisions ripple through the oil
industry, affecting prices from the
barrel down to the gasoline pump.
“To the global oil industry, to
politicians and senior civil serv-
ants, to journalists, and to the
world at large, Yamani became the
representative, and indeed the
symbol, of the new age of oil,”
author Daniel Yergin wrote in
“The Prize” (1990), a history of the
oil industry. “His visage, with his
large, limpid, seemingly unblink-
ing brown eyes and his clipped,
slightly curved Van Dyke beard,
became familiar the planet over.”
Mr. Yamani, a Harvard-trained
lawyer, became oil minister in
1962 and would lead the ministry
until 1986. He served a crucial role
in the nascent oil cartel OPEC as
producers around the world be-
gan to try to dictate prices to the
world market previously domi-
nated by the economic policies of
Western nations.
Mr. Yamani was the first Saudi
representative on OPEC’s board of
governors in 1961. From his posi-
tion, he became known not for the
hysterics that accompanied years
of turmoil across the wider Middle
East, but an ever-calm negotiating
style that Saudi ministers after
him sought to mimic.
But that style for an oil kingpin
known by the honorific “the
Sheikh” would be tested by the
times, which included upheaval in
the global energy market. That
was especially true in the 1973
Middle East war, in which Egypt,
Syria and their allies launched a
surprise attack on Israel on the
Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur.
When President Richard M.
Saudi Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani is flanked by his country’s flag at the conference of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting
Countries in Geneva in 1978. The Harvard-trained lawyer was behind Arab countries’ 1970s oil embargo protesting U.S. support for Israel.
Nixon moved to support Israel,
Arab producers in OPEC agreed to
cut their supply by 5 percent a
month. When Nixon continued
his support, the decision gave
birth to what would become
known as the “oil weapon” — a
total embargo on the United
States and other countries, engi-
neered by Mr. Yamani.
Prices in the United States
would rise by 40 percent, leading
to gasoline shortages and long
lines at the pump. Oil prices glob-
ally would quadruple, leading to
the wealth now seen across the
Arab states of the Persian Gulf.
“The Arab oil [embargo] was
meant, and I was behind it, not to
hurt the economy, just to attract
the international public opinion
that [there] is a problem between
the Palestinians and the Israelis,”
he told CNN in 2010. He added
that he did not regret the embargo
but had reservations about
OPEC’s later efforts to set prices,
which he called “a mismanage-
ment of power.”
In 1975, Mr. Yamani found him-
self twice at major moments in
history.
He stood just outside the room
when a nephew of King Faisal
assassinated the monarch in
March. In December, he was
among those taken hostage at
OPEC headquarters in Vienna, in
an attack led by Carlos the Jackal.
Three people were killed and doz-
ens of others were seized, includ-
ing 11 OPEC ministers, before all
the hostages and pro-Palestinian
militants were released. (One of
the militants, Anis Naccache, died
Feb. 22 at age 69 after being hospi-
talized for covid-19.)
Afterward, Mr. Yamani de-
scribed Carlos, a Venezuelan
whose real name is Ilich Ramírez
Sánchez, as a “ruthless terrorist
who operates with coldblooded,
surgical precision.” From that mo-
ment on, Mr. Yamani traveled with
an entourage of bodyguards ev-
erywhere he went.
O F NO TE
After the 1973 oil crisis, Mr.
Yamani also led the Saudi take-
over of the Arabian American Oil
Company, gradually wresting con-
trol of a consortium of American
companies that had extracted the
kingdom’s oil for decades. Now
known as the Saudi Arabian Oil
Company, or Aramco, the compa-
ny is a major employer for the
kingdom and its main source of
revenue.
In 1986, King Fahd of Saudi
Arabia dismissed Mr. Yamani with
a terse statement carried by the
state-run Saudi Press Agency. At
the time, it was believed that Mr.
Yamani disagreed with the king in
his insistence that OPEC work out
a permanent system of production
quotas and that the kingdom
would be given a bigger share of
the total. Saudi Arabia ultimately
went along with another interim
arrangement.
Ahmed Zaki Yamani was born
in Mecca on June 30, 1930, when
camels still roamed the streets of
DIETER ENDLICHER/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Saudi Arabia’s holy city. His father
and grandfather were religious
teachers and Islamic lawyers.
Mr. Yamani completed his edu-
cation abroad, receiving a bach-
elor’s degree from King Fuad I
University in Cairo in 1951 and a
master’s degree from New York
University in 1955, and graduating
from Harvard Law School in 1956.
He started a law firm in Jiddah, a
port city on the Red Sea, and
worked as a legal adviser to the
Saudi government before becom-
ing oil minister.
After his dismissal, he founded
the Centre for Global Energy Stud-
ies, a London-based consulting
firm.
He had three children from his
first marriage, to Laila Sulleiman
Faidhi, which ended in divorce. In
1975 he married Tamam al Anbar,
with whom he had five children.
Complete information on survi-
vors was not immediately avail-
able.
— Associated Press
commitment, he served more than 30 years
because of the intelligence and integrity of
those he served with and his appreciation of
the mission’s importance. Bob served most
of his career in the Navy’s Security Group,
collaborating with sailors, SEALs, engineers,
scientists, and government leadership. He
talked about his work rarely and mostly ellip-
tically. The Navy took Bob and his late wife
Carol to rural Japan, the highlands of Scotland,
California, the Spanish coast, Norfolk, and
London. Bob found poetry sustaining, Calvados
and Armagnac illuminating, Notre Dame foot-
ball rarely good enough, and family a pleasure.
He was a world-class giver of advice when
solicited but used surprisingly few words when
giving it. Faith was very important but also
absent for decades in the middle of his life.
He laughed easily and as much with his eyes
as his mouth. He had an easy generosity that
drew all sorts of people to him though it’s not
clear he was aware how remarkable it was. He
will be celebrated in a private Mass and laid
to rest next to his wife at Arlington National
Cemetery on April 19. He is survived by his
two children, Anne and Tito, and four siblings,
Jack, Gail, Kathy, and Terese, as well as a legion
of mourning friends. Contact Anne or Tito for
further details of how we’ll celebrate his life.
DARDIS
RACHEL DARDIS
Rachel Dardis of Myrtle Beach, SC died
on February 23, 2021. She was born in
Kilkenny, Ireland on May 21, 1928 and lived
and worked in Dublin as a Home Economics
teacher until 1957 when she moved to Eng-
land and later to the United States.
She got a Ph D in Economics from the
University of Minnesota in 1965 and spent
most of her career at the University of
Maryland, College Park first in the Depart-
ment of Textiles and Consumer Economics
and later in the Department of Economics.
She published extensively in the areas of
international trade and consumer econom-
ics and directed more than sixty graduate
students. She became Professor Emerita
in the Department of Economics upon her
retirement in 1996.
She enjoyed traveling and visited Ireland
and other countries in Europe frequently.
She was also a keen golfer and played
many of the famous courses in Ireland and
Scotland.
She is survived by her nephew Christopher
John (Talia) and their two children. No
services are being held.
GASSEK
GERALDINE ELEANOR GASSEK Gerri"
Mrs. Edward William Gassek
June 23, 1942- February 10, 2021
Born in Hartford CT to Nicholas William Corbett
Brosius and Eleanor "Pat" McKeen Brosius.
Grew up during WWII in New Britain, CT, moved
to Worcester, MA in 1952 and to Alexandria, VA
in 1966.
Gerri overcame many adversities: surviving the
deadly 1953 F4 tornado in Worcester, MA.
when her home was destroyed with Gerri
inside; temporarily paralyzed with Polio in the
50s; and widowed in 1984 with the sudden
death of her loving husband, Ed.
Attended Keene State College in NH, studied
English and graduated in 1964. Married Ed
in 1965. Settled in Alexandria, VA in 1966
where Ed taught English and Drama at Fort
Hunt HS. In 1970 they welcomed their only
child. Gerri enjoyed all things Irish, writing,
reading, mysteries, music, politics, pets, beach
and especially lighthouses.
During the last several years as her health
declined her dear friend Paul was her constant
caregiver. Gerri died in her sleep at home with
Paul at her side.

Obituaries of residents from the
District, Maryland and Northern
Virginia.
Janet Lobatz,
nurse and teacher
Janet Lobatz, 79, a nurse who
also was a teacher of nurse practi-
tioners and supporter of midwife-
ry, died Dec. 24 at her home in
Bethesda, Md. The cause was
pancreatic cancer, said a son,
Andrew Epstein.
Ms. Lobatz was born in Chica-
go. From 1964 to 1974 she was a
staff nurse at Washington Hospi-
tal Center. She taught aspects of
nursing care, pregnancy care and
midwifery at area hospitals and
colleges. She was a founder of
Maternity Center Associates in
Bethesda and was its director
from 1975 to 2007. She was an
advocate for home births and
helped push successfully for
Maryland legislation requiring
hospitals to grant admitting priv-
ileges to certified nurse mid-
wives.
Betty Rose Grantham,
systems analyst
Betty Rose Grantham, 86, a
systems analyst for the Fairfax
County Public Schools in North-
ern Virginia from 1968 to 1993,
died Dec. 19 at a medical center in
Tucson. The cause was a brain
injury suffered in an accidental
fall and complications of the
covid-19 coronavirus, said a son-
in-law, Stanley Kissinger.
Mrs. Grantham was born Betty
Rose Ebner in Austin and lived in
the Washington area from 1964 to
1993, when she moved to Arizona
from Vienna, Va.
Jane Anne Boorman,
program manager
Jane Anne Boorman, 88, a for-
mer Capitol Hill aide who worked
27 years for the Small Business
Administration before retiring in
1987 as a program manager in the
Office of Entrepreneurship Edu-
cation, died Dec. 11 at a memory
care health center in Rockville,
Md. The cause was complications
from Alzheimer’s disease, said
her nephew William Boorman.
Ms. Boorman, a D.C. resident,
was a native of Lemmon, S.D.,
where she worked as an editor for
the Lemmon Leader, a weekly
newspaper founded by her grand-
father, and became active in the
Republican Party.
She moved to Washington in
1973 to work as the press secre-
tary for Rep. James Abdnor
(R-S.D.) and was his personal
secretary when Abdnor served in
the Senate in the early 1980s.
She served on her condomin-
ium’s board for 47 years, volun-
teered with neighborhood civic
groups and played the organ at St.
Dominic Catholic Church and at a
community center at Fort Lesley
J. McNair, both in Southwest
Washington.
Joseph Fries,
law-firm partner
Joseph Fries, 83, a real estate,
business and tax lawyer who was
a partner with the law firm Arent
Fox in Washington and a former
adjunct professor at Georgetown
University’s law school, died
Dec. 25 at a hospice center in
Boynton Beach, Fla. The cause
was ischemic cardiomyopathy
and renal failure, said a son,
David Fries.
Mr. Fries, a native of Brooklyn,
joined Arent Fox when he moved
to Washington in 1961. He spe-
cialized in complex real estate
deals, representing developers of
high-profile projects such as
Washington Harbour and the
Ronald Reagan Building and In-
ternational Trade Center. He
served on the firm’s executive
committee and was a contribut-
ing editor of the trade publication
Legal Times.
A supporter of the performing
arts, he was a former board mem-
ber and pro bono general counsel
of the Washington Summer Op-
era Theatre Company. Mr. Fries, a
former resident of Rockville, Md.,
began living in Boynton Beach
full time in 2008 and continued
to practice law until his death.
Alice Robinson,
librarian
Alice Robinson, 82, a retired
D.C. librarian who helped devel-
op and manage the Black studies
collection at the Martin Luther
King Jr. Memorial Library in
Washington, died Dec. 2 at a
hospital in the District. The cause
was complications from a rup-
tured brain aneurysm, said her
daughter Binta Robinson.
Mrs. Robinson, a D.C. resident,
was born Alice Burton in Rouge-
mont, N.C. She came to Washing-
ton in 1969 and began a 39-year
career with the D.C. Public Li-
brary system, with most of that
time at the Black studies division
until her retirement in 2008. She
oversaw the collection of more
than 15,000 books and helped
organize the division’s annual
programming for Martin Luther
King Jr. Day and Black History
Month.
Arthur Baltrym,
lithographer
Arthur Baltrym, 94, a lithogra-
pher at Stant Lithograph in Belts-
ville, Md., from 1974 until his
retirement in 1988, died Dec. 21 at
a rehabilitation center in Gaines-
ville, Va. The cause was pneumo-
nia, said his daughter Donna
Mooney.
Mr. Baltrym was born in
Queens. During World War II, he
served in the Navy and was on the
destroyer escort USS Shelton
when it was sunk in 1944 by a
Japanese submarine torpedo at-
tack in Indonesian waters.
He lived in Falls Church, Va.,
for 42 years before moving to
Gainesville in 2016.
James King,
GWU professor
James King, 96, a professor
emeritus of German at George
Washington University and
scholar of medieval studies who
was an authority on translating
Old High German and Latin man-
uscripts written by philosophers
from the 10th and 11th centuries,
died Jan. 1 at his home in Fairfax
County, Va. The cause was con-
gestive heart failure, said his son
Christopher King.
Dr. King, a native of Union-
town, Pa., taught at GWU for 35
years until he retired with emeri-
tus status in 1990. During his
tenure, he served as chairman of
the Department of Germanic
Languages and Literature and
assistant dean of the Columbian
College of Arts and Sciences. He
wrote, edited and contributed to
books and publications about the
Abbey of St. Gall in Switzerland,
one of the oldest libraries in the
world.
He was the first president of
the D.C. chapter of the American
Association of Teachers of Ger-
man, a past president of the GWU
chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa
honor society, and a member of
the Cosmos Club and St. Paul’s
Episcopal Parish in Washington.
Salvatore Corrallo,
researcher, race walker
Salvatore Corrallo, 89, a retired
Department of Education re-
searcher and former competitive
race walker who promoted his
sport while setting national age-
group race walking records, died
Dec. 14 at a nursing home in
Naples, Fla. The cause was cer-
ebral atherosclerosis, said a
daughter, Krista Paquin.
Dr. Corrallo, a Naples resident
since 2015, was a former Arling-
ton, Va., resident and cross-coun-
try runner who started race walk-
ing in the mid-1970s. He set more
than a dozen records, including a
1982 national record for 51-year-
olds in the Athletics Congress
50-kilometer race walking cham-
pionship with a time of 5 hours
7 minutes.
He competed into the early
1990s, organized race walking
competitions on the National
Mall and advocated for the inclu-
sion of race walking in high
school track-and-field programs.
He was past president of the
Potomac Valley Senior Track
Club, former chairman of the
USA Track & Field (USATF) Race-
walking Committee and a recipi-
ent of the USATF President’s
Award.
Born in Lockport, N.Y., he came
to Washington in 1967 and
worked 29 years for what became
the U.S. Education Department,
where he wrote publications on
postsecondary education costs,
student aid programs and critical
thinking curriculums as project
director of the National Assess-
ment of College Student Learning
before retiring in 1996.
Mark Ramee,
Foreign Service officer
Mark Ramee, 79, a Foreign
Service officer from 1965 to 2000
who specialized in nuclear arms
control and Russia, and countries
in Eastern Europe, died Nov. 2 at
a hospital in Annandale, Va. The
cause was complications from a
broken hip, said a son, Neal
Ramee.
Mr. Ramee, a resident of Vien-
na, Va., was born in Columbia,
S.C. His Foreign Service assign-
ments included political counsel-
or at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow
and deputy chief of mission at the
U.S. Embassy in Warsaw. He was a
negotiator on nuclear arms con-
trol teams.
After his retirement in 2000,
he worked for 12 years as a State
Department contract employee
helping to shepherd manuscripts
written by former government
employees through the publica-
tion review process. He also
played shortstop in a Northern
Virginia senior softball league.
Thomas McIlrath,
physicist
Dr. Thomas McIlrath, 82, a
retired physicist who did early
research in the use of lasers to
explore the structure of atoms
and ions while teaching at the
University of Maryland’s Insti-
tute for Physical Science and
Technology, died Dec. 20 at a
hospital in Washington. The
cause was end-stage Parkinson’s
disease, said his daughter Chris-
tine Lehnigk.
Dr. McIlrath’s scientific discov-
ery of resonant laser ionization
led to new insights into the en-
ergy levels in ions and had appli-
cations in energy research. He
taught at the University of Mary-
land for 22 years until 1995 and
served as associate dean for re-
search and graduate studies. He
was treasurer and chief financial
officer of the American Physical
Society for 10 years until 2006, a
fellow of the Optical Society, and
a former guest researcher and
collaborator at the National Insti-
tute of Standards and Technol-
ogy.
Dr. McIlrath was born in Dow-
agiac, Mich. He came to the Wash-
ington area in 1973 and lived in
College Park, Md., before moving
in 2005 to a retirement communi-
ty in Gaithersburg, Md.
— From staff reports
Survivors include: friend Paul Haley, a retired
career diplomat sister, daughter Laura, son-in-
law Bill and two grandsons, Garrett and Edward
Lewis all of Alexandria.
Interment at Mount Comfort Cemetery in
Alexandria, VA.
Memorial donations in lieu of flowers: Amer-
ican Red Cross redcross.org or Friends of
Homeless Animals FOHA.org.
DEATH NOTICE
GIBSON
DOUGLAS BANCROFT GIBSON
(Age 85)
Died on February 1, 2021, at his home in
Houston, TX.
Doug was born at home in Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ and
grew up in Hamden, CT. A 1953 graduate of
Hamden High School, he was a member of
the swim team, yearbook staff, and earned
the rank of Eagle Scout. He received a Con-
gressional Appointment from Connecticut and
entered the United States Naval Academy,
graduating with the Class of 1957 as a member
of the 2nd Company.
Doug served 20 years in the US Navy and
earned his Masters Degree in Electrical Engi-
neering at the Naval Postgraduate School in
Monterey, CA. As Docking Officer in Long
Beach Naval Shipyard, he supervised the
QUEEN MARY’s final docking prior to her con-
version to a hotel, landmark and entertainment
venue for the city of Long Beach, CA. A tour
of duty, as Boiler Inspector with the Board
of Inspection and Survey, brought him to the
DMV in 1969 and was followed by multiple
assignments in Naval Sea Systems Command.
After his retirement in 1977, he worked for
several Engineering Management Consulting
firms in Crystal City, Arlington, retiring again in
1996.
Doug was a tirelessly devoted and loving family
man. In the thankless spirit of parenthood, he
gamely braved a gamut of unenviable duties
through the 1970’s and 80’s as PTA President,
soccer coach, halloween costume designer,
and volunteer youth acolyte leader. He was
always prepared with a clean handkerchief
and never turned down a dish of vanilla ice
cream. There was nothing Doug couldn’t grill,
iron or scrub clean! After 30 years in the DMV,
he and his wife relocated first to Florida, and
eventually settled in Houston, TX. Following his
second retirement, he and Abbie criss-crossed
Europe and the US by plane, cruise ship, tour
bus, and car, befriending like-minded travelers
and participating in many rousing games of
‘couples bridge’ along the way.
Doug is survived by his wife of 55 years, Abbie;
a brother, Ronald B. (Judy); two daughters,
Jennifer A. Gibson (Chris Agharabi); and Jill
D. Shokery (Raouf); three grandchildren, Ava
Agharabi, Andrea Hayes (Robert) and Adam
Shokery; and two great-grandchildren, Ramsey
and Daphne Hayes.
Memorial services will be held at a future
date and inurnment will take place at Arlington
National Cemetery with appropriate military
honors.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 , 2021
DEATH NOTICE
GRIFFIN
CAROL JANE GRIFFIN
(née Anderson) (Age 73)
Of Stephenson, VA, passed away December 28,
2020. Carol was born October 21, 1947 in New
Hampshire to Robert and Frances Anderson.
She grew up in Wharton, NJ.
Carol graduated from Denison University,
where she met her late husband, John Ralph
Griffin III, to whom she was married for 49
years. After college, Carol and John settled in
Northern Virginia, where she was awarded her
MS degree from University of Maryland and
launched a consulting company which she ran
for over 20 years with her husband.
Carol was a devoted and beloved wife and
mother, and is survived by her son Sean
and daughter-in-law Catharine of Washington;
her son Eric and daughter-in-law, Austin of
Falls Church; her grandchildren, John, Anne,
and Edward; her sister, Barbara Baraw of
Stowe, VT; her sister-in-law, Jill Griffin and
brother-in-law, David Loomis of Mt. Jackson;
her nephews, Kevin Robertson of Indianapolis,
IN, Owen Robertson, of Sarasota, FL, and
Charles Baraw of Newtown, CT; and her niece,
Sheri Baraw Smith of Stowe, VT.
Due to COVID restrictions, a live virtual cele-
bration of her life will be available online at
http://youtu.be/Upl6Xmldnns on February 27,
2021. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations
may be made to Children’s National Hospital at
http://childrensnational.org
Arrangements by Phelps Funeral & Cremation
Service, Winchester, VA.
GRIFFIN
LOWELL B. GRIFFIN
Lowell (Bo) Baugh Griffin, 86, a retired
lieutenant colonel in the Army who later
worked for Electric Data Systems, passed
away February 21, 2021 at his home in
Gaithersburg, MD after a brief illness. Bo
lived at the Woods Resort in Hedgesville,
WV for 30 years, until 2020.
Bo was born in Berea, KY, graduated from
the University of Kentucky and served
active duty for 21 years with assignments
overseas in Korea, Germany and Vietnam.
His final assignment with at the Pentagon
where he retired in 1979.
His beloved wife of 48 years, Nancy Lair,
preceded him in death in 2004. His daugh-
ter Katherine L. Griffin, passed away in
2018. Survivors include his daughters,
Susan (Lars) Hanan of Chevy Chase, MD
and Fran (Nick) Biase of Rockville, MD and
grandchildren, Peter, Matt and Eric Hanan,
Annie and Marta Biase. He is also survived
by sister, Betty Hoover of Louisville, KY.
The family will have a private inurnment
service honoring Bo at Arlington National
Cemetery at a later date.
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STOLWIJK
DR. JAN A. J. STOLWIJK, PH.D
Dr. Jan A. J. Stolwijk, Ph.D., was born on a
farm that grew seed wheat on a polder in
the Netherlands on September 29, 1927, the
eldest son of Leonard and Cornelia (Van der
Bijl) Stolwijk. He attended the Amsterdam
Montessori school, probably taught by Maria
Montessori herself. A physiologist and bio-
physicist, he received his BS, MS and PhD
in plant science from Wageningen University
in 1955. He came to the United States in
1955 and was naturalized in1962. On leave
of absence from the Laboratory of Plant
Physiological Research, Wageningen, the
Netherlands, he accepted a post-doctoral
position as a Maria Moors Cabot Research
Fellow at the Biological Laboratories at Har-
vard, under the mentorship of Dr. Kenneth V.
Thimann.
From Harvard, he was recruited to the John B.
Pierce Laboratory in New Haven, Connecticut
in 1957, where he studied human physiology,
and rose to serve as Associate Director from
1974 to 1989. He transferred to Yale first as
Director of Graduate Studies, and then as
Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and
Public Health from 1982-1989, and again as
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DEATH NOTICE
HOOPER
CHARLES ALLEN HOOPER, SR.
(Age 97)
Peacefully passed away on Thursday, Feb-
ruary 18, 2021. Born to the late Lawrence
and Melissa Hooper in Asheville, NC. A
longtime and faithful member of Florida
Avenue Baptist Church. Predeceased by
his wife of 55 years, Marjorie F. Hooper;
one brother and two sisters. He leaves
cherished memories with his three sons,
Charles Jr., Louis, and Craig; and a host
of other relatives and friends. A visitation
will be held on Monday, March 1, 2021
from 6 to 8 p.m. at McGuire Funeral Home,
7400 Georgia Ave. NW, Washington, DC.
Graveside service and interment on Tues-
day, March 2, 2021, 11 am, at Lincoln
Memorial Cemetery.
www.mcguire-services.com
LENT
CLAIRE MARIE LENT
Claire Marie Lent (née Lynch) died on Feb-
ruary 17, 2021, age 97 at her home in
Arlington, VA. She was born and grew up in
Lawrence, MA. She was the first member of
her Irish immigrant family to attend college,
matriculating at Emmanuel College in Bos-
ton, MA on scholarship, and graduating
with a BS, majoring in mathematics with a
minor in physics in 1944. After graduation,
she moved to Washington, DC to support
the war effort, working as a statistician
at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory. After
the war, while working at the Labor Depart-
ment, she met her future husband, Harold
H. Lent, Jr. "Bud" They married in 1954.
After raising her family, she returned to
work, joining her husband at the Central
Intelligence Agency, again as a statistician.
In retirement she enjoyed traveling the
world, visiting, among other places, Lon-
don, England, China, India, South America,
and Israel. She also served as a docent at
museums including the National Museum
of American Art and the Hillwood Estate,
Museum and Garden. Her passion for opera
and ballet took her to many of the great
opera houses and theaters in the United
States and around the world. She is pre-
deceased by her ever-loving husband Bud;
and survived by her four children and nine
grandchildren. Interment will take place at
the Arlington National Cemetery Columbar-
ium alongside her late husband at a date
to be determined. Arrangements by the
MONEY AND KING FUNERAL HOME
www.moneyandking.com
LOWE
HARRY LOWE
On January 10, 2021, Harry Lowe, 98,
passed away peacefully of natural causes
at his home in Washington, DC. A native
of Alabama, Harry earned a BA at now
Auburn University before serving in World
War II in combat in Europe in an artillery
battalion. After the war, he returned to
Auburn, acquiring an MA where he was
appointed professor of art and curator of
collections. He then moved to Nashville to
accept a position as founding director of
the Tennessee Fine Arts Center, organizing
the collection and exhibitions at the Cheek-
wood Mansion.
In 1964 Dillon Ripley was instrumental in
bringing him to Washington as head of
exhibitions and design at the Smithsonian’s
then National Collection of Fine Arts, where
he assisted in moving the museum col-
lection to its current home in the Patent
Office Building. Harry served successively,
through the museum’s change of names, as
assistant director, acting director, and lastly
as deputy director of the then renamed
Smithsonian American Art Museum, retir-
ing in 1984.
During his 20-year tenure at the museum,
he designed and managed special exhibi-
tions, oversaw the Smithsonian Traveling
Exhibition Service, and served as deputy
commissioner of the American art exhibi-
tion at the Venice Biennale, as well as
implementing long-range guidelines, poli-
cies, and programs for the museum. A
private memorial gathering and interment
are planned. Donations in Harry’s memory
may be made to the Smithsonian American
Art Museum at: America-
nArt.si.edu/donate.
Acting Chair from 1994-1995. He retired as
Professor the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor
Emeritus of Epidemiology and Public Health.
He was a member of the Cosmos Club of
Washington, DC; Sigma Xi - the scientific
research honor society, and others.
Dr. Stolwijk combined deep insight, technical
skill, and creativity, in a wide range of sub-
fields of environmental health. He wrote the
first digital computer program to model heat
flow in the human body for the NASA space
program in 1966, in what became known as
“The Stolwijk Model”. He pioneered research
on sick building syndrome, indoor air pollu-
tion, non-ionizing radiation, and other topics
of environmental health, and even quantified
the social science – social policy arena of
risk perception. He continued his internation-
al connections, consorting with noted public
health scientists such as Sir Richard Doll.
He was fluent in several languages including
Dutch, German, French and English. His keen
assessment of character, quietly ironic sense
of humor, mentorship, and uncanny ability to
lead well and effectively in a crisis, will all be
missed.
On the morning of Wednesday, February 17,
2021, surrounded by those who loved him,
he passed away peacefully at home at the
age of 93. The cause of death was congestive
heart failure. Survivors include his wife of 30
years, Deborah Rose, daughter Sarah L. S.
Rose, sister Agnes Stolwijk Korsuize, brother-
in-law Hans Korsuize, and many nieces and
nephews. A memorial service will be held by
Zoom at Temple Isaiah in Fulton, Maryland, at
3 p.m. EST on Tuesday, February 23, 2021. A
private interment will take place in New York
on Thursday, February 25, 2021.
The Association Montessori Internationale
(AMI) was founded by Dr. Maria Montessori
in 1929, with headquarters in Amsterdam.
The Washington Montessori Institute (WMI)
is the oldest training center in the United
States. Donations in Dr. Stowlijk's memory
can be made to the non-profit WMI by visiting
the website at: www.wmi-montessori.org.
DEATH NOTICE
MALACARNE
ALBERT C. MALACARNE
Albert “Mal” Malacarne, 90, of Ashburn,
VA passed away peacefully on February
22, 2021 at Inova Loudoun Hospital in
Leesburg, VA. In passing, he joins his wife
of 56 years, Rosemarie (Cavanaugh)
Malacarne (predeceased), whom he very
dearly loved.
Albert was born in Wilkes Barre, PA to
Alfonso and Mildred (Gaydos) Malacarne in
1931. He has two sisters: Alice Bonomo
(predeceased) of Poughkeepsie, NY and
Carol Wasilefski of Hummelstown, PA. He
graduated from G.A.R. Memorial High
School in Wilkes Barre as president of
his class. He then went on to college on
an athletic scholarship at The Citadel in
Charleston, SC and graduated in 1952 at
the top of his class.
During the Korean War, he served two
years in the Army. He spent his entire
professional career of 38 years with AT&T
(Bell System) where he participated in the
support of NORAD, development of the first
telecommunications satellite (Telstar), and
implementing the original 9-1-1 system.
He is survived by his five children: Charles
Malacarne (wife Heidi) of Leesburg, VA,
Anthony Malacarne (wife Lauren) of Ash-
burn, VA, Elizabeth Castro (husband
Thomas) of Houston, TX, Suzanne Iasiello
(husband Anthony) of Knoxville, TN, and
Arthur Malacarne (wife Melissa) of Round
Hill, VA, and 11 of the finest grandchildren
and six of the greatest great- grandchildren
you’ll ever find.
A service will be held Friday, February
26, 2021 at 10:30 a.m. at Saint Theresa
Catholic Church, 21370 St. Theresa Lane,
Ashburn, VA 20147. Final internment for
Albert and Rosemarie Malacarne will be
held at Arlington National Cemetery at a
later date.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made
as a Memorial Gift honoring Albert
Malacarne to the American Heart Asso-
ciation at www.heart.org
Online condolences may be expressed at
www.loudounfuneralchapel.com
MOYE
JAMES FREDERICK MOYE "Toot"
Passed away on Tuesday, February 9, 2021
surrounded by family. He is preceded in death
by his parents, James E. and Gloria Moye.
Left to cherish his memory is his loving wife
Carolyn; daughter, Tiffany (Ryan); two grand-
sons; siblings Michelle, Diane (Jarrod) and
Anthony; and a host of other relatives and
friends. Visitation will be held at the Marshall-
March Funeral Homes of Suitland, MD on
February 27, 2021 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
DEATH NOTICE
KREUZBURG
RICHARD KREUZBURG, II "Dick"
Richard “Dick” Kreuzburg II died peacefully
on Friday, February 19, 2021 at his daughter’s
home in Mt. Airy, MD at the age of 86. Dick
lost his wife of 63 years, Jessie to COVID on
July 1, 2020.
Dick is survived by his two daughters and
their husbands Patricia Kreuzburg and Steve
Knapp, Chesapeake Beach, MD, Paula
Kreuzburg and James Rommel, Mt. Airy MD
as well as two sons James Kreuzburg, Fred-
erick MD and Richard Kreuzburg III and
Samantha Kreuzburg, Hagerstown MD; his
four beloved grandchildren, Christopher
Duroeulx, Olivia, Grace and Ella Kreuzburg.
He will also be missed by his cats Pumpkin
“The Lion King” and Sweetie Pie.
Dick was born on April 1, 1934 in Danbury,
CT. He grew up in Silver Spring Maryland
where his family owned and operated Mrs.
K’s Toll House. He was very curious and too
smart for the average school so forged his
own education through a variety of schools
SHEA
ROBIN T. SHEA
Robin Turpin Shea, of Olney, MD, passed
away peacefully on February 19, 2021, age
54. Beloved wife, partner, and best friend
of Quinlan J. Shea, III for 26 years. She is
survived by her father Donald W. Turpin of
Summerville, SC, stepmother Peggy; mother
Judy A. Lanuti of Ann Arbor, MI, stepfather
Daniel; mother-in-law Hedi S. Shea of Chagrin
Falls, OH; brother Dennis W. Turpin of Tampa,
FL, wife Ruby; sister Amber Henderson of
Nashville, TN, husband Harold; sister Melody
Dupree of Summerville, SC, husband Steve;
brother-in-law Kevin T. Shea, wife Bertha; and
sister-in-law Christina S. Lordan of Chagrin
Falls, OH, husband Timothy. Loving aunt of
Christopher Lordan, Brian Turpin, Sean Lor-
dan, Katarina McKoy, Claire Lordan, Brian
Lordan, Connor Lordan, Rebecca Dupree and
Rachel Dupree; and devoted Godmother to
many special young people.
Robin was born in Tampa, Florida and gradu-
ated from high school in Summerville, South
Carolina. After moving to the Washington, DC
area, she worked for a defense contractor
and in the energy sector, culminating in
the position of Assistant Director at a non-
profit K-12 education foundation. Robin was
active in her local civic and homeowners’
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DEATH NOTICE
PETTUS
JAMES ALVIN PETTUS (Age 94)
Passed away on Sunday, January 31, 2021.
Funeral info: Masks/social distancing required
at Visitation (10 a.m.) and Service (11 a.m.
limited to 60 people) on Saturday, February 27
at Mount Carmel Baptist Church, 901 3rd St.,
NW, DC., 20001. Service to be live streamed
online: Facebook.com/Bianchi Funeral Service
-Videos. Interment private. In lieu of flowers,
donations in his name to “DAV.org/Donate”,
are appreciated.
WEATHERS
YVONNE WEATHERS
Passed away on Friday, February 12, 2021.
She is survived by her loving sisters Shirley
and Dorothy Weathers; one brother William
Weathers, five nieces, two nephews, other
loving family members and friends. Memorial
Service will be held on Saturday February 27,
2021 at 2 p.m. at McGuire Funeral Home, 7400
Georgia Ave. NW.
www.mcguire-services.com
DEATH NOTICE
ALLEN
AMANDA L. ALLEN
Passed away on February 15, 2021 at Capital
Care Hospice in Washington, DC. She was
born in Danville, VA on October 29, 1935.
She lived in the Washington, DC area for 64
years. Predeceased by her husband Dan Allen;
parents, and three siblings. She is survived by
two daughters, four grandchildren, three great-
grandchildren, five sisters, one brother, and a
host of other relatives and friends. Services
will be on Saturday, February 27, 2021. Public
Viewing at 10 a.m.; Private Service at 11 a.m.
at Berean Baptist Church, 924 Madison Street
NW, Washington, DC. Interment Resurrection
Cemetery, Clinton, MD. The Service will be
livesteamed via Zoom.us, Meeting ID# 861
6545 1600, Passcode: 159135. Telephone log
on: Telephone: (301) 715-8592, Meeting ID:
86165451600# Passcode: 159135#
BURGESS
JOHN EDWARD BURGESS, JR.
Peacefully on Saturday, February 20, 2021.
Loving husband of Teresa; father of Jordan;
devoted son of John, Sr. and Janie Burgess; a
host of other relative and friends. Services will
be held on Saturday, February 27, 12 noon to
11 a.m. at Briscoe Tonic Funeral Home, 2294
Old Washington Town Rd., Waldorf, MD 20620.
Additional arrangements will be entrusted to
W.B. Crumel Funeral Home in North, South
Carolina (803)247-2231.
www.briscoe-tonicfuneralhome.com
and summer camps in Vermont and the
DC Area. His interests included airplanes
and anything with an engine: trucks, cars,
motorhomes, race cars, sprint cars, boats;
the stock market, everything about Alaska,
real estate, and all types of business. He read
several newspapers and publications cover
to cover each month.
He served in the Airforce at Lockport AFSTA,
Lockport New York from 1953 to 1957 where
he met his wife Jessie Brown on a blind date,
and they were married in 1956.
He became a Commercial Pilot and flew for
Capitol Airlines for several years. He met
his future business partners Jim Richardson
and his father Bill at College Park Airpark
while teaching Jim to fly. In 1959, they built
and developed Montgomery County Airpark.
He and Jim ran and operated the airpark for
18 years, but both continued to be involved
in the business until their deaths. Dad was
very proud that Jim’s daughter Sandy Poe
is General Manager at DC Metro Aviation
Services, an entity that manages the airpark
today.
He was the third generation to own and
operate Mrs. K’s Tollhouse with his family
until selling it in 1996. Mrs. K’s Tollhouse was
run by the Kreuzburg Family from 1927 until
1996.
For many years Jessie and Dick traveled the
country in their motor home and eventually
built a home in Ft. Myers Florida where they
wintered for over 20 years.
His curiosity was evident by the many ques-
tions he would ask each day and advice he
provided to all that were lucky to know him.
Due to COVID restrictions a celebration of life
will take place at a later date. Donations
may be made to the Frederick County Animal
Shelter or Frederick Hospice.
Expressions of sympathy may be offered to
the family at StaufferFuneralHome.com.
associations and was a state-certified Master
Gardner.
The best word to describe Robin is beloved,
defined as dearly loved, because to know
Robin was to love Robin. In many ways
she embodied the southern hospitality of
her roots, as she genuinely welcomed new
people into her life. She had the incredible
knack of making friends wherever she went,
whether with staff at local stores and restau-
rants; acquaintances from many years of
world travels; other Washington Capitals
fans; or among the Doctors, nurses and
fellow patients that journeyed with her for
over five years.
If you came into Robin’s orbit you would feel
her pull, because she had the gift of making
anyone she spoke to the center of her
attention. Even as metastatic breast cancer
attacked her body, she always had a sense
of humor and ready smile—a real smile that
lit up her face and crinkled her eyes—and
her laugh was contagious and uplifting. She
was steadfast and positive until the end, and
occasionally headstrong too, but in a good
way.
Robin was a lifelong learner and always
open to new experiences, especially when
absorbing new locales, cultures, and cuisines
in her global travels with Quin. She turned her
passion for nature’s beauty and gardening
into volunteerism as she worked to beautify
her neighborhood and the broader commu-
nity.
Robin's love and kindness radiated until the
end, and those ripples will endure. She will
be well missed.
Robin wished to spend eternity in a few of
her favorite places and her ashes will be
spread at a later date. Services are being
held privately. If inclined, please celebrate
Robin’s life by donating to one of her favorite
charities: Habitat for Humanity, So Others
Might Eat, and World Central Kitchen.
Arrangements entrusted to Going Home Cre-
mation and Funeral Care.
www.goinghomecares.com
DEATH NOTICE
CRUMP
RONALD HAMILTON CRUMP
On Monday, February 8, 2021, Ronald
peacefully transitioned into eternal rest
with family by his side. Survived by his
loving wife of 57 years, Barbara Crump,
his devoted children Monita Crump-Sisco
(Sam) and Reginald Crump, eight grandchil-
dren, two great-grandchildren, and a host
of other family and friends. Visitation will be
Saturday, February 27, 2021, at Not About
Me Ministries, 3106 Branch Ave, Temple
Hills, MD 20748, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., private
service at 11 a.m.
In lieu of flowers please give donations
to Pancreatic Cancer Action Network -
pancan.org in memory of Ronald H. Crump..
LANDBERG
ERIK LANDBERG
(Age 87)
Of Reston, VA, beloved husband of the late
Michelle De Cou-Landberg, passed away on
February 23, 2021. Born in Andover, MA, the
family shortly thereafter moved to Seneca
Falls, NY, in the heart of the Finger Lakes, where
he grew up. Upon graduating from Cornell
University in 1955, he was commissioned as
an Air Force officer, where he attained the
rank of captain. He also attended George
Washington University Law College while sta-
tioned in Washington, DC. Following his time in
service, he joined the firm of Merrill Lynch. A
vice president of the firm, he retired after 37
years with the company in April 1997.
He and his late wife, Michelle, were active in
the Reston community, working with Herndon-
Reston F.I.S.H. and Kids R First. He served as
a trustee of the Virginia chapter of The Nature
Conservancy, and was the president of the
Cornell Club of Washington, DC. His philosophy,
honed from the loss of his parents in his
youth, was strongly based on one’s capacity
for developing resiliency in one’s life and the
appreciation and acceptance of the moral
goodness in others, especially among the less
fortunate. This was reflected in a large number
of overseas foster children sponsorships that
he and his late wife undertook, in addition
to supporting organizations in the pursuit of
justice and equality for all.
He is survived by his brother, George, of Cary,
NC; by his children, Vicki Peters of Westerville,
OH; Claire De Cou of Centreville, VA; Michael
De Cou of Mesa, AZ; Jack De Cou of Alpine,
WY; as well as six grandchildren, two nieces,
and a nephew. A private service will be held by
the family at a future date. Contributions in lieu
of flowers to the family can be made to your
favorite charity.
DEATH NOTICE
STONE
CECILLE A. STONE
Of Woodbridge and Spotsylvania, VA, passed
suddenly and unexpectedly on January 7, 2021
at her new home in Wimauma, FL. She was
born on November 28, 1950 to the late Lois
and Lloyd J. Desvigne of Queens, NY and grew
up in a busy, joyful household with five siblings.
She earned a B.S. in Nutrition Sciences from
Howard University. While working at Coler,
she completed a M.S. in Allied Health Science
Administration from Hunter College. Cecille
married the love of her life, Ronald Stone
and established her career at Sunrise Senior
Living Center in Fairfax, where she worked
until she retired to Florida with her husband
last July. During their 30 years of marriage,
they taught everyone the value of a perfect
union. She leaves to cherish her memory her
husband, Ronald Stone, her siblings, and many
more family and friends. Donations can be
sent in Cecille’s memory to Arena Stage in
Washington, DC. A virtual memorial will be
held at gatheringus.com at 1 p.m. on Sunday,
February 28, 2021.
TYNES
RICHARD WALTER TYNES, JR.
Beloved father, husband, and friend Richard
Walter Tynes, Jr passed away peacefully on
Tuesday, December 29, 2020, in Norfolk,
Virginia at the age of 75.
Richard was born on June 17, 1945 in Nor-
folk, Virginia, to Richard W. Tynes Sr. (father)
and Mattie White Tynes (mother), both now
deceased. He grew up in a small but loving
family as an only child. “Dickie” (as he was
known) graduated from Hampton University
and then received his JD from Howard Uni-
versity in 1968. During this time, he became
a member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity.
He went on to join the U.S. Army in 1971,
where he served his country proudly, rising
to the rank of Captain until his honorable
discharge in 1973. Dickie married Gail Fitzger-
ald Tynes on November 27, 1977. They lived
in Oxon Hill, Maryland and Virginia Beach,
Virginia, before finally settling in Washington,
DC.
As a driven businessman, Dickie had an
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DEATH NOTICE
WEST
JANE SMITH WEST
Jane passed away peacefully in her home
on February 14, 2021. She was born Sep-
tember 21, 1924 in Washington, DC and
lived in the area for her entire life. She
married another Washingtonian, Dick West,
in 1941, which began a beautiful love story,
whose last chapter was written when Jane
joined Dick in heaven on Valentine’s Day.
Jane was a devoted mother and wife always
seeing that her family was cared for abun-
dantly. Jane maintained close relationships
with her three children, Sally, Dick, and
Tom, until the end of her amazing life. Her
husband Dick died in 2013 after Jane had
heroically cared for him for 22 years fol-
lowing a debilitating stroke. Jane’s courage
during that time was an inspiration to all
who knew and loved her.
“Nonie” was the north star for the family
as it grew, welcoming generations to their
home for many memorable milestones and
holidays. She was much beloved by her
grandchildren and great grandchildren, and
she treasured them so.
Jane was involved in philanthropic work
and devoted much of her time to Children’s
Hospital. She had a generous spirit and
often reached out to help those in need.
She had a perpetually positive attitude and
could always make you smile. Jane loved
spending time with her great friends at
Chevy Chase Club and Maidstone Club over
many decades.
Jane is survived by her daughter Sally
(Daniel), son Dick (Linda), son Tom (Ann);
five grandchildren, and four great grand-
children.
A memorial service will be planned at a
later date. A contribution can be made in
her honor to Children’s Hospital.
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unmatched work ethic. In 1980, he founded
Eagle Maintenance Services, where he
became an example of hands-on entrepre-
neurship. You were just as likely to see
him down in the trenches as you were
rubbing elbows in the boardroom. In 1995
he was the only black businessman in the
country who owned a material- resource-
recovery recycling facility. He was enormous-
ly and sincerely proud to provide over 7,000
job opportunities for D.C residents during
his career. In 1996 the United States Small
Business Association honored him with its
Award for Excellence. He retired in 2004.
In his free time, Dickie was a committed
boater and an active lifelong member of the
Men’s Association at the Basilica of St. Mary
in Norfolk, Virginia. He loved his family and
dogs (Omar and Winston) with all his heart
and enjoyed watching sports and old western
movies. Through his volunteer work later
in life with Meals on Wheels, Dickie found
humility supporting the fight against senior
isolation and hunger.
When diagnosed with Covid-19, Dickie was
optimistic he would beat the virus and con-
tinued to live by his credo, “Do the best you
can.” He remained brave and positive, even
throughout his final days. He is survived by
his wife of 44 years Gail Fitzgerald Tynes;
his daughter, Veronica Lynn Tynes; sons,
Kristopher Ali Tynes and Richard Walter Tynes
III; granddaughters, Laila Tynes and Tara
Tynes; and grandsons, Kristopher Tynes, Jr.
and Anthony Mark.
Dickie requested cremation, and a private
service will be held on June 17, 2021. As a
military veteran, his ashes will spread into
the Chesapeake Bay. The family would like to
specifically thank the staff of Riddick Funeral
Service for their constant attention and care.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in
memory of Richard Walter Tynes, Jr. to your
local food bank.
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Sun, then clouds Today Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday OFFICIAL REC ORD
Partly sunny Showers Rain Shower Partly sunny Rain
Morning sunshine will give way to possible Temperatures AVERAGE RECORD ACTUAL FORECAST

increasing clouds through the day.

We should stay dry, though, with
rain holding off until after dark.
Highs will range from near 50 to the
mid-50s. Winds will be out of the south around
10 mph.
49° 40 ° 57° 47 ° 56° 50 ° 57° 32 ° 46° 36 ° 56° 41 °

FEELS*: 49° FEELS: 54° FEELS: 51° FEELS: 51° FEELS: 46° FEELS: 54°
CHNCE PRECIP: 20% P: 70% P: 70% P: 30% P: 0% P: 55%
WIND: E 6–12 mph W: SW 7–14 mph W: ESE 7–14 mph W: NW 10–20 mph W: ENE 6–12 mph W: NE 6–12 mph
HUMIDITY: Low H: High H: High H: Moderate H: Low H: Moderate
Su M Tu W Th F Sa Su M Tu W Th F Sa Su
Statistics through 5 p.m. Thursday

REGIO N NATION Weather map features for noon today.

Reagan Dulles BWI
High 59° 12:47 a.m. 56° 1:17 a.m. 56° 1:49 a.m.
Low 45° 7:00 a.m. 42° 7:00 a.m. 41° 12:04 a.m.
Harrisburg Philadelphia
47/36 Normal 50°/33° 49°/28° 47°/28°
47/37 Record high 84° 1930 79° 2000 83° 1930
Hagerstown Record low –1° 1914 6° 2015 8° 1914
Baltimore
46/37
48/39 Dover Difference from 30–yr. avg. (Reagan): this month: –1.7° yr. to date: +0.7°
44/38
Davis Washington Cape May Precipitation PREVIOUS YEAR NORMAL LATEST

38/33 Annapolis 41/38

49/40 45/39 OCEAN: 40°

Charlottesville Ocean City

47/38 43/42
OCEAN: 42°
Lexington
43/33
Richmond
48/41 Virginia Beach
46/44 Reagan Dulles BWI
Norfolk OCEAN: 42°
48/45 Past 24 hours 0.00" 0.00" 0.00"
Total this month 3.44" 3.00" 3.58"
Kitty Hawk
Normal 2.35" 2.46" 2.59"
47/46
OCEAN: 42° Total this year 5.37" 4.88" 5.73"
Normal 5.16" 5.14" 5.64"
Pollen: Moderate Air Quality: Good Snow, past 24 hours 0.0" 0.0" 0.0"
Grass Low Dominant cause: Particulates Snow, season total 5.4" 12.0" 10.7"
Trees Moderate
Weeds Low UV: Moderate Moon Phases Solar system
Mold Low 4 out of 11+
Rise Set
Sun 6:45 a.m. 5:58 p.m.
Blue Ridge: Today, mostly cloudy, shower. High 30–35. Moon 5:20 p.m. 6:42 a.m.
T-storms Rain Showers Snow Flurries Ice Cold Front Warm Front Stationary Front Feb 27 Mar 5 Mar 13 Mar 21
Wind southeast 7–14 mph. Tonight, mostly cloudy, snow. Yesterday's National World
Full Last New First
Venus 6:34 a.m. 5:20 p.m.
Low 27–31. Wind southeast 10–20 mph. Saturday, cloudy, High: Zapata, TX 93° High: Mount Magnet, Australia 105° Mars 10:02 a.m. 12:33 a.m.
Quarter Quarter
<–10 –0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110+ Low: Daniel, WY –29° Low: Khabyardino, Russia –59° Jupiter 5:48 a.m. 4:04 p.m.
rain. High 50–54. Wind southwest 10–20 mph. Sunday, for the 48 contiguous states excludes Antarctica Saturn 5:24 a.m. 3:25 p.m.
cloudy, rain. High 52–56.
NATIONAL Today Tomorrow Des Moines 44/30/pc 49/33/pc Oklahoma City 53/37/c 60/42/c WORLD Today Tomorrow Hong Kong 78/63/c 73/66/c Rio de Janeiro 82/74/t 81/75/t
Atlantic beaches: Today, partly sunny. High 43–48. Wind Detroit 38/31/s 45/32/pc Omaha 44/27/pc 50/31/pc Islamabad 73/54/sh 69/50/s Riyadh 69/44/s 72/52/s
northeast 6–12 mph. Tonight, cloudy, rain. Low 37–45. Albany, NY 36/26/s 44/31/r El Paso 69/40/s 71/42/c Orlando 83/65/pc 87/67/pc Addis Ababa 78/52/s 76/54/s Istanbul 56/40/s 54/44/s Rome 62/44/pc 61/45/pc
Wind southeast 7–14 mph. Saturday, cloudy, rain. High Albuquerque 57/30/s 59/30/pc Fairbanks, AK 20/11/c 17/–2/sn Philadelphia 47/36/pc 52/43/r Amsterdam 50/36/pc 51/36/pc Jerusalem 58/47/s 62/47/s San Salvador 89/66/s 90/68/s
52–64. Wind southwest 10–20 mph. Sunday, cloudy, rain. Anchorage 30/26/sn 33/14/sn Fargo, ND 42/18/c 21/4/sf Phoenix 72/45/pc 75/46/pc Athens 66/46/s 65/50/s Johannesburg 72/58/t 72/57/sh Santiago 86/57/s 89/60/s
High 48–54. Wind northwest 8–16 mph. Atlanta 60/53/sh 74/60/pc Hartford, CT 41/27/s 46/33/r Pittsburgh 44/38/pc 52/38/c Auckland 76/62/pc 76/65/pc Kabul 52/33/pc 58/26/s Sarajevo 65/35/s 51/34/s
Austin 65/56/c 76/65/c Honolulu 82/71/pc 80/70/pc Portland, ME 34/23/s 42/34/r Baghdad 71/44/s 71/43/s Kingston, Jam. 81/75/pc 83/76/pc Seoul 59/31/pc 58/31/s
Waterways: Upper Potomac River: Today, partly sunny. Wind east Baltimore 48/39/pc 54/44/sh Houston 75/64/sh 78/68/pc Portland, OR 48/39/r 51/40/pc Bangkok 98/75/pc 97/77/s Kolkata 94/69/pc 94/69/pc Shanghai 51/49/sh 55/51/c
4–8 knots. Waves less than one foot. Visibility unrestricted. • Lower Billings, MT 40/22/c 31/19/c Indianapolis 47/40/c 56/45/pc Providence, RI 41/31/s 48/38/r Beijing 50/20/s 55/30/s Lagos 87/80/pc 88/80/t Singapore 90/76/c 90/76/pc
Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, partly sunny. Wind east 4–8 Birmingham 65/62/r 74/62/c Jackson, MS 75/63/c 78/67/c Raleigh, NC 49/42/r 64/51/r Berlin 51/38/r 49/37/pc Lima 75/67/c 76/68/pc Stockholm 47/30/pc 43/32/pc
knots. Waves around a foot on the Potomac and on the Chesapeake. Bismarck, ND 48/22/c 29/9/c Jacksonville, FL 78/56/pc 82/63/pc Reno, NV 56/26/s 45/21/c Bogota 68/50/t 67/50/t Lisbon 59/51/sh 65/50/c Sydney 77/67/pc 74/69/c
Boise 41/28/sf 38/22/sf Kansas City, MO 48/34/pc 60/41/s Richmond 48/41/c 57/47/r Brussels 52/35/pc 49/35/s London 52/36/s 53/37/pc Taipei City 82/64/pc 68/61/r
Visibility unrestricted.• River Stages: The stage at Little Falls will be
Boston 38/31/s 46/37/r Las Vegas 67/46/s 62/41/s Sacramento 68/43/s 66/42/pc Buenos Aires 83/71/s 81/71/s Madrid 62/40/c 63/38/pc Tehran 49/38/s 51/36/s
around 5.10 feet today, rising to 5.80 Saturday. Flood stage at Little Buffalo 39/32/s 45/34/r Little Rock 50/45/r 59/54/r St. Louis 50/38/c 61/49/pc Cairo 70/53/s 73/51/s Manila 89/77/s 90/77/s Tokyo 53/41/sh 48/35/c
Falls is 10 feet. Burlington, VT 31/23/s 41/31/sn Los Angeles 74/51/s 73/52/s St. Thomas, VI 85/75/pc 85/75/sh Caracas 67/65/sh 70/65/pc Mexico City 80/53/s 80/54/s Toronto 38/29/s 44/32/r
Charleston, SC 65/55/pc 76/61/pc Louisville 49/45/r 60/51/c Salt Lake City 45/29/sn 35/22/sn Copenhagen 46/34/pc 45/36/pc Montreal 29/18/s 38/33/sn Vienna 61/39/pc 47/34/c
Charleston, WV 48/41/r 56/47/sh Memphis 54/51/r 63/61/r San Diego 69/49/pc 67/50/s Dakar 80/64/s 75/63/s Moscow 42/33/c 35/19/sn Warsaw 50/38/r 46/30/pc
Today’s tides (High tides in Bold)
Charlotte 47/40/r 66/54/pc Miami 83/74/s 83/75/s San Francisco 62/46/s 64/48/s Dublin 52/42/pc 53/39/pc Mumbai 89/75/pc 91/78/pc
Key: s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, r-rain,
Washington 1:58 a.m. 7:14 a.m. 2:05 p.m. 7:28 p.m. Cheyenne, WY 33/17/pc 31/12/sf Milwaukee 40/34/s 43/34/pc San Juan, PR 84/74/s 84/74/sh Edinburgh 51/42/pc 53/38/pc Nairobi 82/55/pc 84/57/s sh- showers, t-thunderstorms, sf-snow flurries,
Chicago 43/36/pc 48/37/pc Minneapolis 39/30/pc 41/27/pc Seattle 49/36/pc 49/41/pc Frankfurt 52/33/r 50/34/s New Delhi 91/65/pc 88/60/pc sn-snow, i-ice
Annapolis 3:55 a.m. 10:19 a.m. 4:55 p.m. 11:06 p.m.
Cincinnati 47/42/c 57/46/pc Nashville 55/52/r 59/58/r Spokane, WA 40/25/sf 39/27/s Geneva 61/44/r 53/36/sh Oslo 44/26/pc 40/30/pc Sources: AccuWeather.com; US Army Centralized
Ocean City 12:16 a.m. 6:40 a.m. 1:01 p.m. 6:54 p.m. Allergen Extract Lab (pollen data); airnow.gov (air
Cleveland 44/38/s 48/35/c New Orleans 78/64/c 78/65/pc Syracuse 38/28/s 47/31/r Ham., Bermuda 67/61/sh 64/63/pc Ottawa 31/17/s 40/26/sn quality data); National Weather Service
Norfolk 2:18 a.m. 8:40 a.m. 3:01 p.m. 9:01 p.m. Dallas 58/45/c 67/57/sh New York City 45/37/s 53/38/r Tampa 82/67/s 84/68/s Helsinki 40/31/pc 37/29/pc Paris 53/37/r 51/37/pc * AccuWeather's RealFeel Temperature®
combines over a dozen factors for an accurate
Point Lookout 12:04 a.m. 6:13 a.m. 12:51 p.m. 7:27 p.m. Denver 42/17/pc 34/10/pc Norfolk 48/45/c 64/48/r Wichita 51/33/pc 62/36/pc Ho Chi Minh City 91/76/c 93/77/pc Prague 53/34/r 41/30/pc measure of how the conditions really “feel.”

Md. reveals possible toll rate ranges for planned HOT lanes
TOLLS FROM B1 Beltway and $9.32 on I-95, said
Transurban spokeswoman Tanya
thinking,” she said. Sheres. Tolls during the peak
The range of rates, which was morning and evening rush aver-
recommended by a state consul- aged $10.52 on both highways,
tant, would be charged by com- she said. Transurban does not
panies seeking a 50-year contract disclose its average per-mile
to build the lanes and finance rates.
their construction in exchange MDOT plans to add four HOT
for keeping most of the toll rev- lanes — two in each direction —
enue. to both the Beltway and I-270. On
The “dynamic” tolls would be the part of I-270 south of I-370,
the first in Maryland to adjust in one of the HOT lanes in each
real time based on the amount of direction would come from con-
traffic congestion. They would verting the existing carpool lane.
range from 20 cents per mile to The potential lane configuration
$3.76 per mile for passenger vehi- north of I-370 to Frederick is part
cles with an E-ZPass transpon- of a future study, and those toll
der. Tractor-trailers would pay rate ranges would be decided
$1.21 per mile to $22.58 per mile. separately, said the Maryland
The rates could escalate over Transportation Authority’s
time to account for inflation and Sharpless.
population growth. Regional computer models
Even with a maximum ap- used by the Metropolitan Wash-
proved rate, the companies ington Council of Governments
wouldn’t be allowed to exceed a found that the upper part of
lower “soft-rate cap” of $1.50 per southbound I-270 is so congested
mile for passenger vehicles and during mornings that a commute
$9 per mile for tractor-trailers from Frederick to Rockville could
unless traffic reached a certain end up costing nearly $50 by
threshold or speeds dropped be- 2040. The authority’s toll esti-
low 50 mph. That would allow mates are for 2025.
speeds in the HOT lanes to re- Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan
main at 45 mph or higher — a (R) has promoted HOT lanes via a
federal requirement, authority public-private partnership as the
officials said. only way to relieve chronic traffic
The maximum rates would be congestion at “no net cost” to
“extremely rare,” such as during taxpayers.
“extreme” congestion after a ma- A state analysis found the aver-
jor collision, Sharpless said. age evening commute between
She said she thinks Texas is the the American Legion Bridge and
only other state that builds in I-370 would be cut from 32 min-
“additional protections” for mo- utes to 15 minutes in the HOT
torists via a soft-rate cap that can lanes and to 23 minutes in the
be exceeded only under certain RICKY CARIOTI/THE WASHINGTON POST regular lanes, the authority said.
conditions. Traffic flows on Interstate 270 at Falls Road in Rockville last February. To help alleviate congestion, Maryland transportation officials The project also would include
The HOT lanes would be free have proposed adding high-occupancy toll lanes to I-270 and the Capital Beltway. Tolls would vary based on the amount of traffic. replacing and expanding the
for buses and vehicles with three American Legion Memorial
or more occupants. The regular commute throughout the Wash- firms — toll road operator Tran- “If our toll rates are completely Bridge.
lanes, which would be rebuilt, ington metro area.” surban and investment bank wrong,” Ports said, “they’re not Critics say the highway expan-
would remain free. Neil Harris, a member of the Macquarie Capital — to design going to be able to get financing sion proposal would cause too
John Townsend, spokesman Gaithersburg City Council and the lanes over about a year. “If you’re in the typical to build this project.” much environmental damage,
for AAA Mid-Atlantic, said the the region’s Transportation Plan- During that time, the state and Under the proposed predevel- shortchange mass transit and
preliminary rates are “surpris- ning Board, said he believes private team also would negoti- rush hour . . . and you opment agreement, the state encourage auto-dependent
ingly lower” than critics had many motorists would be willing ate a 50-year contract to begin would have to reimburse the sprawl development. The state
predicted. They appear to be to pay to avoid “soul-crushing” construction, which is expected need to be somewhere, companies for up to $50 million postponed adding toll lanes to
affordable to most drivers and in traffic when necessary. to take three to four years. of their expenses if they back out the Beltway east of the I-270 spur
line with those charged in North- “If you’re in the typical rush The authority first shared the then you’ll be willing to because the approved toll rate after vocal opposition to a state
ern Virginia’s HOT lanes on the hour on I-270 and the free lanes preliminary toll rates with the ranges ended up being signifi- study that found widening that
Beltway and I-95, he said. aren’t moving very rapidly and original four bid teams — one pay the toll.” cantly different from what they section would require destroying
All motorists benefit from you need to be somewhere, then later dropped out — in November saw before they bid. up to 34 homes.
Neil Harris, a member of the
HOT lanes, Townsend said, be- you’ll be willing to pay the toll,” to solicit their expertise, said Maryland officials say the pre- Motorists using the first
Gaithersburg City Council
cause those willing to pay tolls he said. James F. Ports Jr., the authority’s liminary toll rates are compara- 12 miles of HOT lanes, critics say,
and the region’s Transportation
free up space in the free lanes. The rates come as the authori- executive director. The compa- ble to those charged in Northern would face even worse evening
Planning Board
By connecting HOT lanes in ty and the Maryland Department nies also needed to ensure they Virginia, where Transurban oper- backups on northbound I-270,
Virginia and Maryland, of Transportation pursue a “pre- could collect enough toll revenue ates 53 miles of HOT lanes. where the wider highway even-
Townsend said, “it will give driv- development agreement” with to secure construction financing, Average tolls in Virginia before tually would narrow to two lanes.
ers and commuters a seamless two recently selected Australian he said. the pandemic were $5.67 on the katherine.shaver@washpost.com
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Keats said
love was his
religion. We
still believe.
BY T ROY J OLLIMORE

Two hundred years ago this

week, English poet John Keats
died of tuberculosis, in Rome, at
the age of 25. In his short life
Keats had composed an astonish-
ing body of work, one that would
guarantee that he would be re-
membered, and admired, as a
great poet. He suspected this but
could not be sure. One can never
be sure in such
matters. He
thought of pos-
terity constant-
ly, and the fear
that he had not
done enough,
that he would
disappear be-
fore establish-
ing an immor-
tal reputation, KEATS’S ODES
tormented A Lover’s
him. Discourse
To be sure, By Anahid
the pugnacious Nersessian
poet had his University of
moments of as- Chicago Press.
surance. In an 160 pp. $20
1818 letter to
his brother, he
wrote, “I think I shall be among
the English poets after my death.”
At least as frequent, though, was
the mood expressed in the sonnet
from the same year that begins,
“When I have fears that I may
cease to be / Before my pen has
gleaned my teeming brain,” or in
PHOTOS BY BILL O'LEARY/THE WASHINGTON POST
the words he chose for his grave-
stone: “Here lies one whose name
was writ in water.”

The splendid and the vial

One suspects that the confi-
dence of that 1818 letter was
based on the expectation of fu-
ture work, not what the poet had
already accomplished. After all,
that letter came not long after the
This is their finest hour of the pandemic: The people giving the shots are seeing hope, and it’s contagious publication of “Endymion,” an
epic poem that was trounced by
critics. Though the reviews were
BY M AURA J UDKIS “There’s so many tears” — of unfair and unkind, “Endymion” is
joy, not sadness — “that it’s far from Keats’s best work, and
The happiest place in medi- almost normal at this point,” the poems that would establish
cine right now is a basketball says Justin Ellis, a CVS phar- him as an enduring poet — in
arena in New Mexico. Or may- macist in Laveen, Ariz. SEE BOOK WORLD ON C4
be it’s the parking lot of a For health-care workers, the
baseball stadium in Los Ange- opportunity to administer the
les, or a Six Flags in Maryland, vaccine has become its own
or a shopping mall in South reward: Giving hope to others THEATER REVIEW
Dakota. has given them hope, too. In
The happiest place in medi-
cine is anywhere there is vac-
cine, and the happiest people
some clinics, so many nurses
have volunteered for vaccine
duty that they can’t accommo-
‘Devils’:
in medicine are the ones plung-
ing it into the arms of strang-
ers.
date them all.
Many of those same health-
care workers spent last year
Murder!
“It’s a joy to all of us,” says
Akosua “Nana” Poku, a Kaiser
Permanente nurse vaccinating
sticking swabs up the noses of
people who thought they might
have the coronavirus.
Mayhem!
people in Northern Virginia.
“I don’t think I’ve ever had
an experience in my career that
The work was risky. The
patients were scared. There
was never relief, just limbo.
Show theft!
has felt so promising and so The arrival of The Shot has
fulfilling,” says Christina transformed the grim pop-up BY P ETER M ARKS
O’Connell, a clinic director at clinics of the pandemic into
the University of New Mexico. SEE VACCINE ON C2 It takes some nerve to play a
Shakespeare villain. Fortunately,
Patrick Page displays it by the
TOP AND ABOVE: Staff Sgt. Lindsey Campbell, a medic with the Maryland National Guard, keeps the coronavirus vaccine line moving in the parking bucketful in the wonderful “All
lot of Six Flags America. The greatest honor, she says, was vaccinating a 103-year-old man who served in the South Pacific in World War II. the Devils Are Here,” his one-
man walk-through of some of the
nastiest pieces of work in the
canon.
Portraying Hades in the Tony-
winning Broadway musical “Ha-
destown” has given even more
hellish variety to Page’s penetra-
tion of the diabolical mind. In
this 80-minute digital piece for
Shakespeare Theatre Company,
he shifts his gaze and protean
talents to some of the best-

Lady Gaga Oreos: An extra-sweet enigma wrapped in a pink wafer
BY T IM C ARMAN
Since they were released in
late January, Lady Gaga Oreos
have generated a lot of words,
many of them from writers who
want to give us an idea of how
the pink-and-green cookies taste.
It’s a perfectly logical pursuit, of
course, service journalism with a
clear eye on Little Monster clicks.
So, here I am, listening to the
soundtrack to “A Star Is Born”
(2018 version, naturally) in my
home office, wolfing down a
small stack of cookies that look
as if they were swiped from a Tim
Burton set and feeling like I have
more questions than answers
about Lady Gaga Oreos. I’m no
Gaga-ologist, but I get the sense
that she, as an artist and fellow
traveler on this big blue marble,
wouldn’t be crass enough to
merely endorse a product tie-in,
as if her cookies were the equiva-
lent of “Avengers: Infinity War”
Ziploc bags.
One of the promotions tied to
Gaga’s cookies is a “Sing It With
Oreo” feature. You can make
personal recordings, transform
them into “musical messages of
kindness” and send them to folks
you love and support. The pink
foil packaging for Gaga Oreos
features a QR code, which pro-
vides instant access to the re-
cording function. You probably
have to give up countless pieces
of personal information in the
process, but go ahead, “Just sing
from the heart, and make some-
one’s day a little brighter.”
The kindness is reinforced
with Oreo’s support of the Born
This Way Foundation, which
Gaga co-founded as a way to help
young people create a more wel-
coming world and to provide
resources for their mental
health.
I’ve been listening to “Chro-
matica,” Lady Gaga’s latest al-
bum, and despite its many dance
grooves, it is a challenging collec-
tion, at least lyrically. The narra-
tors in her songs — it’s probably
unwise to assume Gaga is always
talking about herself, even
though she has all but said the
album reflects her personal jour-
ney — wrestle with doubts, inner
demons and self-destruction. It’s
dark, confessional stuff, all set to
beats that keep your feet moving,
even as your heart aches at the
human frailties embedded in the
lyrics.
“I hope that they listen to this
record and go on not only my
SEE OREOS ON C4
known, most malevolent and
sometimes loved characters in
Shakespeare’s plays.
Page’s invigorating survey,
performed on a sparsely fur-
nished stage and directed by
Alan Paul, gives us insight into
Shakespeare’s fixation on evil, in
all its permutations.
In this veteran classical actor’s
compellingly convincing trea-
tise, a viewer is immersed not
just in conventional notions of
villainy — embodied by a Rich-
ard III or “Hamlet’s” Claudius. It
also expounds on some of the
comic manifestations of badness
that enrich characters you love
despite their flaws, such as Fal-
staff, or characters who arouse
more-complex feelings, such as
Shylock in “The Merchant of
Venice,” whose motivations in
SCOTT SUCHMAN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
FOOD STYLING BY MARIE OSTROSKY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST response to the antisemitism of
his time have sparked debate for
Are these Oreos a simple example of cross-branding or more than centuries.
meets the sweet tooth? On her latest album, Lady Gaga sings that For “All the Devils Are Here,”
she’s “lived in a pink box so long.” Maybe this is a sugary metaphor. SEE REVIEW ON C4
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Pharmacy manager Justin Ellis checks in on people waiting to receive a coronavirus vaccine at Beatitudes Campus, a retirement community in Phoenix. “I crank up the music and we kind of jam,” he says. “Their
spirits are high. So it’s very exciting for me to see 70-, 80-year-old, 90-year-old people just really living their best life.” Sometimes, he helps set up a FaceTime connection so family members can witness the jab.
Vaccine givers and receivers share a little shot of hope
VACCINE FROM C1
gratitude factories — reassembly
lines where Americans could be-
gin to put back together their
busted psyches.
“I will never forget the face of
the first person I vaccinated,”
says Ebram Botros, a CVS phar-
macy manager in Whitehall,
Ohio. It was an 80-year-old man
who said that he hadn’t seen his
children or grandchildren since
March.
Botros’s pharmacy is in a di-
verse community outside Co-
lumbus. As an African American
who immigrated to the United
States from Egypt, Botros feels a
special responsibility to reassure
Black patients who may be
vaccine-averse from a historical
legacy of medical abuse. One
89-year-old Black woman told
Botros she had never gotten a
shot before in her life.
“I explained to her: ‘This is
very important. It’s painless, and
it’s going to help you have your
life back to normal,’ ” he says. Her
grandson later reached out to
Botros to thank him personally
— and told him that the woman
called all of her friends and
urged them to get their shots,
too.
Corie Robinson, a Kaiser
nurse in D.C., has been vaccinat-
ing a younger crowd of firefight-
ers, police officers and fellow
medical professionals, as well as
the elderly. She was selected to
give the ceremonial first vacci-
nations on camera at a Dec. 17
news conference.
“The lights were a little nerve-
racking,” she says, but “it was
nice to vaccinate my friends.”
Now, sometimes people request
her as their vaccinator because
they saw her on the news.
The positivity has buoyed her
spirits.
“You can see their smiles
through their masks,” she says of
her patients. One elderly man
sang while he got his shot. Others
request pamphlets about the vac-
cine because they want to put
them in time capsules. One man
told Robinson he was making
history twice — he had been
among the first children in
America to receive the polio
vaccine.
“I say quite often, this is prob-
ably the most important thing
I’ll ever do in my career,” Robin-
son says. “Sometimes it’s a little
overwhelming because you’re
like, ‘Wow, I’m the keeper.’ ”
Patients pulling up to Lindsey
Campbell’s vaccine station are
sometimes surprised to see that
their shot will be administered
by a woman in Army camo.
“I’ve definitely got a couple of,
like, ‘Are you qualified to do this?’
Gladis Castro, pictured at the Pierce College vaccination site in Los Angeles, says that when people receiving their vaccinations get
emotional, “you do want to be the one to comfort them. But you also have a little time crunch. You need to go to the next car.”
kind of questions,” says Camp-
bell, a staff sergeant with the
Maryland National Guard. One
man “asked me what my normal
Army job is. And I said, ‘Oh, no,
I’m a medic.’ He’s like, ‘Oh, I
thought you were a cook.’ ”
Casual sexism aside, Campbell
has enjoyed being a vaccinator.
She loves it when veterans come
through her line. The greatest
honor, she says, was vaccinating
a 103-year-old man who served
in the South Pacific in World War
II.
Though there are heaters, the
toughest thing about working
outdoors is maintaining dexteri-
ty in her hands.
“If I felt like my fingers were
too cold, I would — I know it’s a
big no-no for our uniforms, but I
would stick my hands in my
pockets,” she says.
One site where Campbell has
been vaccinating people is the
parking lot of Six Flags America,
with roller coasters in full view of
the patients. “That was the first
thing that the soldiers were jok-
ing about,” Campbell says. “ ‘Do
we get season passes? Can we go
there after work?’ ”
At the University of New Mex-
ico’s basketball arena, O’Con-
nell, clinic director at University
EZ RE
“I think I’ve done
480-something”
shots in a single day,
Gladis Castro says.
“I’ve lost count.”
of New Mexico Health, has been
sinking shots — into muscle
tissue. Sometimes there’s enter-
tainment for the patients: The
team practices while people get
vaccinated on the concourse lev-
el. Check-in attendants greet
people arriving at the arena
(known affectionately as “The
Pit”) for appointments with
pompoms and cheers.
“Patients just love it,” O’Con-
nell says. “I mean, people miss
coming here. This is a big deal in
Albuquerque.”
O’Connell recalls vaccinating a
man who lost his mother to
covid-19 the night before and still
showed up for his appointment,
which made all the nurses cry.
She also remembers a husband
and wife who showed up in
matching homemade vaccine T-
shirts — crossed syringes and the
phrase “Two and done” — to get
their final doses.
Once they were done, “this
couple was like, ‘Okay, we’re
going to go have a margarita
now,’ ” she says.
Everybody cheered. Swish.
When Gladis Castro checks in
for her 6:30 a.m. vaccination
shift at Dodger Stadium, one of
the biggest distribution sites in
the country, she begins to fill her
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cart with supplies — alcohol,
gauze, a sharps container and
coolers of vaccine. Then she and
a small team wheel it out to their
spot in the parking lot, and a long
line of cars begins to wind its way
toward her — their occupants’
windows rolled down and
sleeves rolled up.
Administering the vaccine
through a car window is “a little
tricky sometimes, especially
when you have these tiny little
old ladies,” Castro says. The in-
teractions are often cordial — she
often strikes up conversation
with patients about their tattoos
— but necessarily brief. The goal
is volume.
“I think I’ve done 480-some-
thing” shots in a single day, she
says. “I’ve lost count.”
When people get emotional,
“you do want to be the one to
comfort them. But you also have
a little time crunch,” Castro says.
“You need to go to the next car.”
When Ellis, the CVS pharmacy
manager in Arizona, administers
vaccine, he’s the one on wheels.
Ellis brings needles and vials
stored in dry ice to assisted-liv-
ing and nursing homes in the
Phoenix area in his roving vacci-
nation clinic.
He also brings the party.
. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 , 2021
COURTNEY PEDROZA FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
“I crank up the music and we
kind of jam,” he says. “Their
spirits are high. So it’s very
exciting for me to see 70-, 80-
year-old, 90-year-old people just
really living their best life.”
Ellis says he has vaccinated at
least nine people who are older
than 100. They tell them all about
their grandchildren. Sometimes,
he even helps set up a FaceTime
connection so the family can
witness the jab.
These ersatz social events are
awash in positive vibes, but they
also make deprivations of the
past year stark. Ellis sees the toll
that isolation and loneliness
have taken on the elderly resi-
dents.
“A lot of them, they haven’t
been outside for a while,” he says.
Poku, the Northern Virginia
nurse, says that “the emotional
time is when I see a husband and
a wife receive the vaccine togeth-
er at the same time, and they’re
grandparents, and they’re just so
excited to see their grandchil-
dren.” They ask her to take pho-
tos, and sometimes to be in the
photo, too. “I guess I’m making
history with them.”
Perhaps the only thing better
than administering the vaccine
to strangers, of course, would be
vaccinating friends and family.
Castro’s parents and loved
ones are still waiting for theirs.
She says friends have asked her
to help them jump the line and
she has to decline.
“It gets a little challenging,”
Castro says, “having to tell your
close ones, like, ‘I’m sorry, like,
you have to wait.’ ”
Sometimes, though, a govern-
ment vaccination plan aligns
with a higher design. When Bra-
dy Stephens was given the list of
Arizona nursing homes where he
would be vaccinating residents,
one name stood out: Friendship
Village, where his wife’s grand-
mother, Pat, lives.
Stephens, a CVS pharmacist in
Tempe, kept it a surprise until
the day Pat was scheduled to
receive her first dose. When he
spilled the news, he wasn’t sure
who was more excited, Pat or his
wife.
“It was just a waterfall of
different emotions” for the entire
family, he says. “Mainly tears of
happiness.”
Vaccinating Pat clarified
something Stephens already
knew: Every person he vacci-
nates is someone else’s Pat.
“All of these residents that
we’re interacting with have at
least one loved one or friend or
family member that is going to be
going through those same emo-
tions,” he says. “It’s very, very
humbling.”
maura.judkis@washpost.com
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Something wickedly wonderful this way comes in ‘Devils’
REVIEW FROM C1
Page embodies them all, and
more, in some of their most
celebrated moments.
We are treated to Shylock’s
“Hath not a Jew eyes?” soliloquy;
to the letter-reading scene fea-
turing Malvolio in “Twelfth
Night”; to Lady Macbeth’s incan-
tatory “Unsex me here” speech.
Blessed with a preternaturally
resonant basso — someone
should record this actor for use,
like the sound of ocean waves, by
troubled sleepers — Page seems
to have been custom-designed
himself for the passages he pulls
out of the texts.
Perhaps most gleefully, he re-
turns to a character he played for
the Washington classical compa-
ny in 2005: Iago, Shakespeare’s
most malicious creation.
As I wrote back then of Page’s
work in the final scene of direc-
tor Michael Kahn’s production of
“Othello”: “At the door, Iago
cranes his neck for a last peek at
the macabre spectacle he’s or-
chestrated — a killer whose only
regret is that he’s not allowed
more time with his kill.”
The portrayal remains with
me to this day, and seeing Page
become Iago again reminded me
just how magnetic a Shakespear-
ean he is — and why “All the
Devils Are Here” is the best
This Oreo is a tough cookie to crack
OREOS FROM C1
personal journey with me and
dance through all the pain,” Gaga
said to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe,
“but also go through their own
journey and dance through all
their pain.”
Some sample lyrics from
“Chromatica,” from “Alice,”
Gaga’s twist on “Alice in Wonder-
land”:
(Oh ma-ma-ma, oh ma-ma-
ma)
I’m tired of screaming
(Oh ma-ma-ma, oh ma-ma-
ma)
At the top of my lungs
(Oh my mother, oh my moth-
er)
I’m in the hole, I’m falling
down, down
So down, down
What does this have to do
with Lady Gaga Oreos, you ask?
Maybe nothing. Maybe every-
thing.
On perhaps the album’s best
song, a pulsating piece of elec-
tronic dance music titled “Plastic
Doll,” Gaga sings that she’s “lived
in a pink box so long.”
The imagery is reinforced with
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Patrick Page, who was unforgettable as Iago in 2005, returns to the Shakespeare Theatre Company to superbly play the Bard’s greatest
villains — including Iago, Shylock and Malvolio — in his one-man show, “All the Devils Are Here,” running online through July 28.
one-person show I’ve come
across during the pandemic.
Page begins the Iago portion
of the show by reading from a
book he used in his research of
the “Chromatica” cover art, in
which Gaga looks like a steam-
punk warrior-goddess pinned
down against a sidewalk grate in
some post-apocalyptic world.
The grate is pink and rectangu-
lar, like a box.
But the pink box may not even
be literal. It may be metaphori-
cal, a box that confines and
traps so many women who
struggle to live up to the impos-
sible standards of beauty and
perfection established for them
at a young age, by toys such as
Barbie and her tidy pink world
of accessories and cars and
homes. In promoting “Chromat-
ica,” Gaga has worn a number of
pink or pink-accented outfits
and bodysuits, suggesting dolls,
bondage or scars that won’t
heal.
Pink, in this context, repre-
sents something artificial. It rep-
resents someone else’s ideal of
perfection, which is ultimately
unattainable and therefore toxic.
As a critic in the New York
Times wrote in its dissection of
“Chromatic,” the album embrac-
es Gaga’s old dance persona
while “retaining the humanity
Tippett told the Associated
Press that the dogs belong to the
pop star. It was not clear whether
the dog walker was targeted
because of his celebrity client,
Tippett said. On Thursday, Vari-
ety magazine reported that the
singer has offered a $500,000
reward for the dogs, named Koji
and Gustav.
Police were initially called to
North Sierra Bonita Avenue
around 9:40 p.m. Wednesday
following several 911 calls report-
ing a man screaming and the
sound of a gunshot, said Capt.
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the character: “The Sociopath
Next Door” by Martha Stout.
The author, Page says, asks her
readers to imagine themselves
inside the psyche of a socio-
that was stripped from her as
she was objectified and jetti-
soned to the realm of the hyper-
famous.”
The Lady Gaga Oreo gives you
a representation of that artifici-
ality, in cookie wafer form, tint-
ed a shade of pink that you rarely
see in commercial foodstuffs. (I
should note these pink wafers
also feature design elements
from the “Chromatica” album,
which reinforces a basic product
tie-in.) You literally have to bite
through the hard wafer to get to
the sweet cream inside, which
itself is bright green. The color’s
connection to nature, not the
artificial world, can’t be ignored.
Green is associated with harmo-
ny, restoration, peace.
You could argue, then, that
Gaga is taking us on a personal
journey not only with her album
but also with her Oreo, which is
available for a limited time only.
She wants you to see your own
journey along the way, too.
And how does the Lady Gaga
Oreo taste? Well, it’s really sweet,
just like learning to live life on
your own terms.
tim.carman@washpost.com
Steven Lurie, commanding offi-
cer of the department’s Holly-
wood division.
The victim, whose name has
not been released, was walking
the dogs on a street off Sunset
Boulevard when a four-door se-
dan pulled over and two men
tried to steal the animals, Tippett
said.
He said the dog walker tried to
fight them off and was shot by
one of the men, who was wield-
ing a semiautomatic handgun,
during the struggle.
— Associated Press
VINYL TILE
path, someone with a “grandi-
ose sense of self,” “a lack of
empathy” and other character-
istics that confirm for him Iago
as a true sociopath. (He also
UCLA professor Anahid Nersessian’s “Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse” — six essays, one for each of
John Keats’s “great odes” of 1819 — is a book that moves in personal and unexpected directions.
200 years on, Keats odes still inspire
BOOK WORLD FROM C1
particular, the “great odes” of
1819 — were yet to come. Those
six odes — “Ode to a Nightingale,”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “Ode on
Indolence,” “Ode on Melancholy,”
“Ode to Psyche” and “To Autumn”
— rise to heights unscaled by
most poets and, indeed, unsus-
pected by many.
The odes are so beautiful —
and Keats’s image as a sensualist,
an effete Romantic aesthete, so
firmly established — that it is easy
to overlook how philosophically
accomplished and profound they
are. They constitute, to my mind,
some of the richest and deepest
meditations on art, beauty, mor-
tality and subjectivity in Western
literature. Sadly, it is such a deep
part of our culture to think of
feeling and reason as profoundly
opposed — and of beauty as fall-
ing firmly on the side of feeling —
that we are programmed to mis-
understand any work in which
reason, feeling and beauty work
in tandem to raise aesthetic ex-
perience to a supreme level of
insight.
Perhaps the odes require a dif-
ferent form of criticism, one in
which feeling is mixed with think-
ing, passion with reason, the sub-
jective with the objective. Some-
thing like this impulse seems to
lie behind Anahid Nersessian’s
“Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Dis-
course.” As the Roland Bar-
thesque title indicates, “Keats’s
Odes” is no staid, traditional
work of literary commentary. Its
six essays, one for each ode, move
in unexpected, often highly per-
sonal directions, expanding the
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briefly references a certain con-
temporary political figure who
for him evinces a similar pro-
file.)
You learn, though, that for an
universe of discussion surround-
ing Keats’s work and attempting
to reinvigorate our engagement
with a set of poems that has now
endured for over 200 years.
Nersessian, a professor of Eng-
lish at UCLA, warns her readers
that this is not the first book
anyone ought to read about
Keats. It is, she writes, “based on
intimate, often idiosyncratic re-
sponses to the poems” and mixes
heavy doses of personal reflec-
tions, autobiographical frag-
ments, quotations from the work
of more-recent poets, and other
such assorted material, with
more-straightforward interpreta-
tion and commentary.
Different readers’ enthusiasm
for such minglings and inter-
weavings will doubtlessly vary.
Indeed, a single reader’s reactions
may vary considerably from essay
to essay, page to page or even
sentence to sentence. Fortunate-
ly, Nersessian is a sufficiently
gifted writer that even where her
interpretations struck me as un-
convincing or stilted, the strength
of her sentences, in combination
with her obvious passion for the
poetry, carried me through. Any
book that tries to do justice to
Keats must be beautiful at least a
fair bit of the time, and “Keat’s
Odes,” particularly when its au-
thor allows herself to be carried
by the force of her enchantment
with the poems, satisfies that
requirement.
This is not to say that there are
no false notes. Biographers, as
Nersessian notes, have demon-
strated that Keats entertained
radical political ideas, but the
radicalism did not make it into
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actor like Page, a total grasp of a
character’s interior life is not
essential, especially for one
whose evil, he concludes, is “ulti-
mately inscrutable.” It’s the char-
acter’s actions, rather, that drive
the portrait.
The chronological format of
“All the Devils Are Here” allows
Page to persuasively track the
evolution of Shakespeare’s ma-
turing vision of the human
soul: The film is handsomely
enhanced by evocative caption-
ing on the floor of the stage and
the lighting by Elizabeth A.
Coco.
By the time Page settles on
Prospero as his final subject — a
wronged nobleman who in the
end of Shakespeare’s last play
eschews revenge — one gets a
consoling appreciation for the
psychic journey the playwright
himself completed, in the sum-
moning of all those timeless
devils.
Let Page be your guide to a
deeper understanding of the
light that went into dreaming up
all that darkness.
peter.marks@washpost.com
All the Devils Are Here: How
Shakespeare Invented the
Villain, written and performed by
Patrick Page. About 80 minutes.
$25. Through July 28.
tickets.shakespearetheatre.org.
ANAHID NERSESSIAN
many of the poems, and certainly
not into these poems. Nersessian
is determined to find it there
anyway, as a matter of style if not
of content. But the strenuousness
of the effort shows, and the re-
sults, it seems to me, are uncon-
vincing and at times dismayingly
reductive. “Ode on a Grecian
Urn,” for instance — a poem with
a great deal to say about art and
the human experience of time —
becomes a piece largely focused
on sexual assault, while the beau-
tiful and manifestly apolitical “To
Autumn” is spun as a kind of
meta-political statement in
which Keats comments on our
woeful human inability to stop
caring about things, like beauty,
that have no political dimension.
It’s a creative interpretation, to be
sure, but while I enjoyed the
chapter (mostly), I did not buy it.
The book’s intimacy, vulnera-
bility and determination to pro-
voke is true to Keats, and Nerses-
sian’s genuine feeling for his work
is never in doubt. One can’t help
but be pleased that two centuries
on, Keats’s odes still inspire en-
gagement and love.
In a letter to Fanny Brawne
from 1820 — that is, after the odes
— he wrote: “ ‘If I should die,’ said
I to myself, ‘I have left no immor-
tal work behind me . . . but I have
loved the principle of beauty in all
things, and if I had had time I
would have made myself remem-
bered.’ ”
He was half-right.
bookworld@washpost.com
Troy Jollimore’s new book of
poems, “Earthly Delights,” will be
published later this year.
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“T rouble understanding
fractions? Our help line
is open 24/7.” — scrawled on
a restroom wall
“Half of my finesses
should work,” Unlucky Louie
griped to me in the club
lounge. “Only a small fraction
of them actually do.”
When Louie was declarer
at today’s four hearts, he
lost the first two diamonds,
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ruffed the third diamond,
drew trumps and led a club
to dummy’s 10. East took the
jack and led a spade. Louie’s
queen won, but when he led
a second club to dummy’s
queen, East produced the
king. Down one.
“West might have held the
ace of diamonds or a club
honor,” Louie sighed, “but
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MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM
Sometimes it’s not the
finesses you take but the
order in which you take
them. After Louie draws
trumps, he should lead a
spade to his queen. He cash-
es the ace, leads a trump
to dummy and ruffs the last
spade. Louie then leads a
club to dummy’s 10, and
when East takes the jack,
he is end-played. He must HAGAR THE HORRIBLE CHRIS BROWNE BALDO HECTOR CANTU & CARLOS CASTELLANOS
return a club into the A-Q or
concede a fatal ruff-sluff.
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You hold:
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bids two spades, preemptive.
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ANSWER: You have enough
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three hearts would suggest a
longer suit. You might survive
a bid of three clubs, but your
best call is a negative dou-
ble, showing, by agreement,
heart length but the wrong
type of hand to bid three
hearts. Discuss negative
doubles with your partner.
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BIRTHDAY | FEBRUARY 26
Empathic, sensitive
and magnetic, you
move people deeply.
This year, your
dedicated attention earns you
many followers. July will be
your most ambitious month.
If single, you can be a shy
lone wolf, and must make an
effort this year if you want
to be with your soul mate.
If attached, you and your
DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS JUDGE PARKER FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & MIKE MANLEY partner can communicate
without speaking. Your bond
is unbreakable. Sagittarius
helps you take yourself less
seriously.
ARIES
(MARCH 21-APRIL 19).
Your sense of adventure
deepens. You’ll yearn to
wander and explore. Dreams
and visions must not be taken
literally. Direct your heightened
imagination and creativity
into constructive ends. A
domestic matter demands
your attention and can be
JEF MALLETT DARRIN BELL sorted out.
FRAZZ CANDORVILLE
TAURUS
(APRIL 20-MAY 20).
Today ushers in a cycle of
happiness. Reach out to those
you care about (even one you
haven’t talked to in a long
time), visit an art display, or
complete creative projects.
Get all the facts before acting.
GEMINI
(MAY 21-JUNE 20).
Seek inner harmony and
release stress. A family
member is feeling very
adventurous and may surprise
GARFIELD JIM DAVIS BARNEY AND CLYDE WEINGARTENS & CLARK you by taking a gamble. Take
sensible precautions and all
will be well. Genealogical study
uncovers interesting facts.
CANCER
(JUNE 21-JULY 22).
A sibling or neighbor is
changing. Don’t be in denial
when obvious signs are being
sent. Be diplomatic when
discussing controversial
issues. Call ahead and confirm
plans. Transportation needs
are being considered and
information exchange is very
important.
DUSTIN STEVE KELLEY & JEFF PARKER THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN STAN LEE & ALEX SAVIUK
LEO
(JULY 23-AUG. 22).
Thoughts mostly revolve
around your earning power.
You work hard for your family’s
security. Shop for an item
you’ve long coveted in the days
before the pandemic. Keep
receipts; a purchase might
have to be exchanged.
VIRGO
(AUG. 23-SEPT. 22).
Today marks one of the
most promising times all
year. Career and personal
opportunities abound. Put
PRICKLY CITY SCOTT STANTIS LOOSE PARTS DAVE BLAZEK plans in motion for future
dreams. Write your resolutions,
schedule appointments and
begin projects you’ve been
interested in.
LIBRA
(SEPT. 23-OCT. 22).
Memories of a lost love
must be kept in perspective.
Your interest in helping the
disadvantaged grows. Quietly,
you will act and do much good
in the world.
SCORPIO
(OCT. 23-NOV. 21).
You will enjoy chance meetings
NON SEQUITUR WILEY BABY BLUES RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY SCOTT with those from your past.
A reunion with a longtime
friend is likely. You reconsider
the pursuit of a dream once
abandoned. Get in touch with
your inner voice for direction.
SAGITTARIUS
(NOV. 22-DEC. 21).
Today is all about
professional aspirations
and your ambitions. You will
attract attention. Pursue
opportunities that showcase
your capabilities. You’re
entering a more promising
security cycle.
BIG NATE LINCOLN PEIRCE ON THE FASTRACK BILL HOLBROOK
CAPRICORN
(DEC. 22-JAN. 19).
Expect an increase in energy
and motivation. Take time to
exercise. Travel is favored, as
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Former Olympic gymnastics coach dies by suicide
gym he owned and ran for dec-
ades.
Geddert was charged Geddert’s death was confirmed
with sexual assault by Michigan Attorney General
Dana Nessel, hours after she held
hours before taking life a news conference announcing
his charges.
“This is a tragic end to a tragic
BY R ICK M AESE story for everyone involved,” Nes-
AND W ILL H OBSON sel said.
Geddert, 63, worked closely for
Former U.S. Olympic gymnas- years with Larry Nassar, the dis-
tics coach John Geddert, who led graced sports physician and con-
the women’s team to a gold medal victed serial child molester whose
at the 2012 Summer Games, killed offenses first were revealed pub-
himself Thursday after he was licly in 2016, leading to a scandal
charged with sexual assault and that continues to resonate in the
human trafficking in relation to gymnastics community. One of
acts that occurred at a Michigan the charges Geddert faced was
In 44 career games, Carter Kieboom has hit just .181, but he said the Nationals’ brass did not address his job security with him during the offseason.
Kieboom remains confident
Even-keeled 23-year-old believes he will keep the Nats’ third base job despite past struggles
BY J ESSE D OUGHERTY
west palm beach, fla. — The conversa-
tion was simple in that, as Carter Kie-
boom tells it, there was no conversation at
all. He didn’t need to hear from Mike
Rizzo or Dave Martinez that his major
league audition would continue. Despite
his struggles and despite the frequent
calls for the Washington Nationals to
replace him, Kieboom is set on using this
chance until it’s gone.
The summer of 2020 didn’t change
that. He still feels in control of his baseball
destiny.
“What’s understood doesn’t need to be
discussed,” Kieboom said on a video call
with reporters Wednesday. “Just go play
third base. Go play your game and do your
job. We don’t need to talk business, you
In the long shadow of Woods, Wilson gets the Caps back on track against the rival Penguins
PGA Tour pros play through
the Palos Verdes Peninsula near
Los Angeles.
As star begins recovery Players spoke of gathering fa-
from car crash injuries, miliarity with a 15-year-old
course called the Concession,
players begin next event named for a golf-historic mo-
ment relished by golf geeks when
Jack Nicklaus conceded a putt to
BY C HUCK C ULPEPPER Tony Jacklin at the 1969 Ryder
Cup. They told of green undula-
bradenton, fla. — Twenty-one tions and Stimpmeter readings.
hundred miles from the towering At an event relocated here from
story in sports, the PGA Tour its normal home in Mexico be-
turned up here and staged more cause of the coronavirus pandem-
impossibly good golf Thursday. It ic, they embodied what Rory
went into the zone in which so McIlroy had said Wednesday,
many woes have gone blocked how Woods’s accident was “obvi-
out of golfing minds across time, ously going to take a bunch of
even given news as jarring as attention away from this golf
Tiger Woods’s ghastly automobile tournament, but that’s nothing to
accident of Tuesday morning on SEE WOODS ON D2
KLMNO
SPORTS
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related to lying to law enforce-
ment during an investigation into
Nassar’s crimes.
The other charges, which Nes-
sel announced Thursday, includ-
ed two counts of sexual assault
against children between the ages
of 13 and 16, according to court
documents, which did not dis-
close whether the acts involved
more than one victim. Geddert
also was charged with 20 counts
of human trafficking relating to
his use of “force, fraud and coer-
cion against the young athletes
that came to him for gymnastics
training for financial benefit to
him,” Nessel said.
Geddert was scheduled to be
could say. We don’t need to talk in that
kind of manner. It’s an understood thing:
‘Carter, go play, man. Go do your thing and
take care of whatever needs to happen.’ ”
Kieboom was paraphrasing an unspo-
ken directive from Martinez, the Nation-
als’ manager, and Rizzo, the general man-
ager. But the 23-year-old was also sharing
what he tells himself. Those close to him
say he is skilled at forgetting mistakes and
blocking out noise. His results, though,
could very well hint at the opposite.
Through 44 games, Kieboom, 23, has
hit .181 with a .309 on-base percentage
and a .232 slugging percentage in
165 plate appearances. In 2019, he made
four errors at shortstop, his natural posi-
tion, before moving to fill the star-sized
void left by Anthony Rendon. Rizzo ar-
gues that this is far too small a sample size
Tom Wilson, right, tilts a tight game the Capitals’ way Thursday
with a power-play goal in the third period against the Penguins.
arraigned Thursday afternoon.
According to a state police spokes-
person, his body was located by
troopers at a rest area on east-
bound Interstate 96 in Clinton
County at 3:24 p.m., and an inves-
tigation is ongoing.
A lawyer for Geddert did not
reply to a request to comment.
Geddert’s charges stemmed
from an ongoing investigation by
the Michigan attorney general’s
office into others who may have
had knowledge of crimes commit-
ted by Nassar, the former Michi-
gan State University assistant pro-
fessor and longtime team physi-
cian for Team USA’s female
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JEFF ROBERSON/ASSOCIATED PRESS
to judge a young player. And Kieboom, a
former top prospect, is confident that his
early struggles will help in the long run.
He’s aware, too, that every opportunity
has a limit.
“I’ll show emotion at times, but I’m
pretty even-keeled,” Kieboom said. “Plus, I
think sometimes when someone who is
very even-keeled, such as myself, if they
struggle it might come across as some-
thing a little bit different.”
The main point there: Kieboom knows
he can occasionally appear apathetic to
his failures. He smiled Wednesday when a
reporter mistakenly asked about his one
home run in 2020 (he hit zero). When
asked about pressure entering this season
and whether he’s feeling any additional
urgency to keep his job, he laughed and
SEE NATIONALS ON D3
JOHN MCDONNELL/THE WASHINGTON POST
John Geddert, shown in 2012, was charged Thursday with two
counts of sexual assault and 20 counts of human trafficking.
CAPITALS 5,
PENGUINS 2
BY S AMANTHA P ELL
Washington Capitals winger
Tom Wilson was parked in front of
the goal midway through the third
period, his stick on the ice as he
glanced at John Carlson in the
circle. In an instant, with a stick-
less Pittsburgh Penguin attempt-
ing to defend, Carlson fed Wilson,
whose deflection went past goal-
tender Tristan Jarry.
Wilson skated over to embrace
an elated Carlson, and the wing-
er’s power-play goal stood as the
eventual game-winner in the Cap-
itals’ 5-2 win over the Penguins on
Thursday night at Capital One
M2 D
KATHY WILLENS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
ANALYSIS
Roster
has holes
beyond
just QB
Washington needs help
at wideout and tight end,
a new deal for Scherff
BY N ICKI J HABVALA
Although the Washington
Football Team surprised with a
playoff run in its first season
under Coach Ron Rivera, he and
his revamped front office now
face a daunting challenge to build
on the team’s success. Its most
pressing need is undoubtedly at
quarterback, and as indicated by
its bid for Matthew Stafford, the
team is willing to be aggressive in
its hunt for an upgrade.
But it also has holes to fill
across the roster. The good news
is that Washington is projected to
have more than $38 million in
salary cap space — the fifth most
in the NFL — based on a cap
projection of $180.5 million, ac-
cording to Over the Cap. It also
has eight draft picks, with an
extra third-rounder it received in
the Trent Williams trade last year.
The bad news? Many of the
spots that need help are premium
positions, and it won’t be long
before Washington has to pay big
money to keep its talented defen-
sive line intact. Here are Wash-
ington’s most glaring needs out-
side of quarterback this offsea-
son.
SEE WASHINGTON ON D3
NFL probe: Former Washington
employees seek to make public
league’s investigation into team. D3
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Yorktown’s Torri Huske
sets two national records
at Va. Class 6 meet. D4
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Maryland’s Angel Reese
(game-high 17 points)
powers rout of Purdue. D4
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Goals from Wilson, T.J. Oshie,
Nicklas Backstrom, Carl Hagelin
and Lars Eller (the last two empty-
netters) — plus the Capitals’ pen-
alty kill going a perfect 4 for 4 —
lifted Washington (10-5-4) to its
fourth win in six games.
“I feel like it’s getting better and
better, and today was just a step in
the right direction too,” Back-
strom said. “. . . I feel like we’re
playing a 60-minute hockey game
tonight and playing really good as
a group. That’s what you’ve got to
do in this league to be successful,
so I think building off this can be a
great thing.”
After the Capitals jumped out
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D2
“Hopefully he’s okay and can get back out here because we need him,” Brooks Koepka, tied for third in Florida, said of Tiger Woods.
Thinking of Woods, tour pros play on
WOODS FROM D1
do with us, that doesn’t fall on us,
and we really don’t feel that when
we’re playing anyway.”
Woods, the all-time compart-
mentalizer, would understand.
In 81-degree sunshine and
bearable humidity, the first
round of the World Golf Champi-
onships Workday Championship
at the Concession looked like a
normal covid-19-era tournament,
with just a trickle of spectators,
maybe a tad more of the sponsors
and invitees and members than
you would have seen were this
still 2020. The absence of galler-
ies probably contributed to the
absence of any visible Woods-re-
lated gear or signage. It was
mostly noiseless as these events
are these days, with volunteers
holding up the QUIET signs long
present at these events and the
MASK UP signs more recently
present at these events.
The normal tournament hap-
pened at a course tucked away
from the boulevards of Sarasota
and Bradenton, rich in nature
and pines and moss and ponds,
back amid still air and quiet
mansions where you might see
osprey families in the median.
Seventy-two entries, including 47
of the top 50 players in the world,
played a course co-designed by
Nicklaus and Jacklin on big,
howling greens such as the one
on No. 18, in which someone
seemingly could build a small
village.
Dustin Johnson, the runaway
No. 1 player in the world, shot a
77.
Brooks Koepka, formidable
again, refused to complicate mat-
ters as usual on a course he
hadn’t seen before Tuesday, shot
a 5-under-par 67 to lurk in a
third-place tie and said of Woods
afterward on Golf Channel,
“Hopefully he’s okay and can get
back out here because we need
him.”
As this went on, much of the
DI G ES T
GOLF
Back after 12 years,
Sorenstam shoots a 75
Annika Sorenstam doesn’t
remember golf being this
difficult.
She still managed plenty of
smiles Thursday when the most
dominant golfer of her era played
her first LPGA Tour event in more
than 12 years. Sorenstam had a
3-over-par 75 in the LPGA
Gainbridge on her home course
at Lake Nona in Orlando.
“It seems a little bit more
stressful, this kind of golf,” she
said.
Sorenstam was 10 shots behind
another Lake Nona member,
Lydia Ko, who fired a 7-under 65
for a two-shot lead.
But then, this week isn’t about
Sorenstam adding to her 72
career victories or even starting a
comeback at age 50. The LPGA
Tour came to her home course,
and she wanted to play. . . .
Tommy Gainey birdied five of
the last seven holes at breezy
Grand Reserve for a 7-under 65
and the first-round lead in the
PGA Tour’s Puerto Rico Open in
Rio Grande. Gainey has a one-
stroke lead over local favorite
Rafael Campos and six others.
TIFFANY TOMPKINS/BRADENTON HERALD/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tony Finau said Woods’s historic breakthrough win in the 1997
Masters changed “the course of my life, course of my career.”
golf-conscious world thought
about a hospital room in West
Carson, Calif. The competitive
golf resumed one day after Anish
Mahajan, chief medical officer at
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center,
told of Woods’s “comminuted
open fractures affecting both the
upper and lower portions of the
tibia and fibula bones,” his “addi-
tional injuries to the bones of the
foot and the ankle” and his “trau-
ma to muscle and soft tissue of
the leg.”
The PGA Tour had left Los
Angeles, where Woods served as a
tournament host at Riviera last
weekend, and had begun its Flor-
ida swing, set to go from here to
the Arnold Palmer Invitational in
Orlando, the Players Champion-
ship near Jacksonville and the
Honda near Palm Beach. Many of
the players managed to combine
both game polish and a concern
for Woods.
SOCCER
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
scored late to steer Arsenal into
the round of 16 of the Europa
League with a 3-2 win over Benfica
in Piraeus, Greece, while Napoli
and both German teams were
knocked out.
Arsenal had to come from
behind to advance, 4-3, on
aggregate, while Napoli is out
despite beating visiting Granada,
2-1, in the second leg. The Spanish
club advanced, 3-2, on aggregate.
Bayer Leverkusen and
Hoffenheim went out with 2-0
losses at home to Swiss side
Young Boys and Norwegian
minnow Molde, respectively.
Manchester United drew, 0-0,
with Real Sociedad for a 4-0
aggregate win, and AC Milan
progressed on away goals, 3-3, on
aggregate, after drawing, 1-1, at
home with Red Star Belgrade.
Goals from Lukas Provod and
Abdallah Sima in the second half
gave Slavia Prague a 2-0 win at
Leicester to progress after a
goalless first leg. Roma got past
Sporting Braga with a 3-1 victory
at home for 5-1 over two legs. . . .
CF Montréal lost a head coach
and MLS said goodbye to a
marquee name when Thierry
Henry announced he was
quitting, citing family reasons. . . .
EZ M2
As 13th-ranked Tony Finau
said here, “I’ve said it I think time
after time: The ’97 Masters
changed the course of my life,
course of my career. Without that
event [which Woods won by
12 shots at age 21], I probably
wouldn’t be here, wouldn’t be
playing golf, so he definitely
changed the course of my life, my
career. I’m one of hundreds of
guys out here probably that
would say the same thing. He
means a lot to the game, but
individually I think he means a
lot to us just individually, espe-
cially for me.”
Finau was a 7-year-old Utahn
at the time. He’s 31 now. He shot a
68 on Thursday.
“Yeah, I’m playing well and just
playing really solid golf,” said
Finau, who finished second after
a playoff at Riviera. “Nothing
changed this week. Just prepar-
ing for the golf course, a golf
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FIFA’s ethics judges closed a
bribery investigation against
German great Franz
Beckenbauer because a statute of
limitations expired, soccer’s
world governing body said. . . .
Former U.S. interim coach
Dave Sarachan was hired to lead
Puerto Rico’s team.
TENNIS
Top-seeded Roberto Bautista
Agut swept aside qualifier
Gregoire Barrere, 6-0, 6-3, to
ERIK S. LESSER/EPA-EFE/SHUTTERSTOCK
course that I’ve never seen be-
fore, has been our biggest task,
my caddie and I, and I think I did
a good job today.”
They spoke normal golf dia-
lect, with co-leader Webb Simp-
son telling of a course “fantastic”
and “firm and fast,” co-leader
Matthew Fitzpatrick telling of
greens “running about 12 on the
Stimp, that’s great for me, I love it
when it’s like that,” and McIlroy
telling of the new greens allowing
pin placements more various
than normal tour stops.
As a group, they were forging
ahead as expert practitioners of a
curious sport whose buzz has
relied so much upon one person.
They were heading back into a
zone they have occupied before,
that of playing on when Woods is
absent, as has happened several
times across the past 25 years.
“It’s always great when he
plays at a tournament or is out
here because it gives that tourna-
ment an extra dimension that it
usually doesn’t have,” McIlroy
said Wednesday. “I think we were
all — you know, we’re all sort of
heading toward that day that
Tiger wasn’t going to be a part of
the game. I’m not saying that that
was soon. He’s still — before this
accident, he was rehabbing a
back injury and hopefully going
to come back and play this year.
It’s inevitable that one day he
won’t be a part of it, and that’s
just going to be just something
that the game of golf and the tour
is going to have to deal with and
adapt to.
“Obviously, hopefully he comes
back and is able to play, but if he’s
not, he’ll still be a part of the
game in some way, whether it’s
obviously his design business and
his foundation and hosting golf
tournaments. We might — it may
be the end of seeing the genius at
work with a club in his hand, but
there’s still a lot of other ways he
can affect the game in a great
way.”
chuck.culpepper@washpost.com
reach the quarterfinals of the
Open Sud de France in
Montpellier. . . .
Rafael Nadal pulled out of
next week’s hard-court
tournament in Rotterdam
because of a back problem.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
The Big Ten is adding a
16th trophy game to honor the
first Black man to play in the
conference. Michigan and
Northwestern will meet for the
THE WASHINGTON POST . FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 , 2021
NBA ROUNDUP
Irving, Harden lead way
as Nets’ streak hits eight
WIZ ARD S ’ N E X T T HREE
NETS 129,
MAGIC 92 vs. Minnesota Timberwolves
Tomorrow 7 NBCSW
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Kyrie Irving had 27 points and Sunday 7 NBCSW
nine assists, James Harden scored
20 points, and the Nets extended vs. Memphis Grizzlies
their longest winning streak since
they moved to Brooklyn to eight Tuesday 7 NBCSW
games with a 129-92 rout of the
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day night.
The Nets have the longest cur- York beat Sacramento.
rent winning streak in the NBA Alec Burks had 24 off the bench
and their longest since a franchise for New York, and Derrick Rose
record-tying 14-game run late in finished with 18.
the 2005-06 season. They moved New York opened up a 77-62
from New Jersey to Brooklyn in halftime edge.
2012. De’Aaron Fox scored 29 points
This roll has come almost en- for the Kings. They have lost nine
tirely without Kevin Durant, who in a row.
missed his sixth straight game l GRIZZLIES 122, CLIPPERS
with a strained left hamstring. 94: Tyus Jones scored a career-
The Nets are explosive enough high 20 points, and host Memphis
with their other two all-stars, im- held Kawhi Leonard and Paul
proving to 7-2 when Irving and George to substandard nights in a
Harden play but Durant doesn’t. victory over Los Angeles.
Landry Shamet added Dillon Brooks added 19 points
19 points and nine rebounds for for Memphis, and Jonas Valanciu-
the Nets, who blew open the game nas and Ja Morant had 16 each.
with a 26-4 run spanning half- Leonard scored 17 points, and
time. The NBA’s highest-scoring George and Serge Ibaka had
team reached 120 points for the
20th time, tying a franchise rec-
ord in only 34 games.
Nikola Vucevic had 28 points
13 points each. George was sty-
mied by a 3-for-12 shooting night
as the Clippers shot 41 percent for
the game.
and 12 rebounds for the Magic,
which dropped its second straight Beasley suspended 12 games
game after a three-game winning Minnesota Timberwolves
streak. shooting guard Malik Beasley was
l 76ERS 111, MAVERICKS suspended for 12 games without
97: Joel Embiid had 23 points and pay by the NBA for his recent
nine rebounds, Ben Simmons guilty plea to a felony charge of
scored 15 points, and Philadel- threats of violence stemming
phia cruised past visiting Dallas. from an incident in September
Simmons and Embiid wrecked when he pointed a rifle outside his
the Mavericks in the second quar- Minneapolis home at a family on
ter and with each steal, dunk and a house-hunting trip.
drive showed why they were again Police later found weapons and
selected as all-stars and have led marijuana in the home.
the 76ers to the best record (22-11) The league announced the
in the Eastern Conference. punishment Thursday, and it will
Luka Doncic scored 19 points begin with Minnesota’s game Sat-
for the Mavericks. urday at Washington. Beasley is
Simmons and Embiid made eligible to return March 27
8 of 12 shots in the second quarter against Houston.
and combined for 22 points to Beasley, in his fifth NBA sea-
help the 76ers turn this one into a son, is averaging a career-best
rout. 20.5 points.
l KNICKS 140, KINGS 121: He was sentenced this month
Immanuel Quickley scored 18 of to 120 days in jail for the incident,
his 25 points in the first half, and a punishment he will serve in the
Julius Randle had 21 points and workhouse after the season as
14 rebounds to help host New part of his plea deal.
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Kyrie Irving scored 27 points as the Nets added to their longest
winning streak since they moved from New Jersey to Brooklyn.
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George Jewett Trophy beginning regents approved a six-year,
in October, the schools $34.2 million guaranteed
announced; Jewett played at both contract for new Longhorns
schools in the 1890s. . . . coach Steve Sarkisian.
University of Texas System — From news services
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 , 2021
Ex-team employees pressure
NFL to make its probe public
Letter to Goodell is part
of campaign for release
of harassment report
BY B ETH R EINHARD
AND M ARK M ASKE
Twenty former employees of the
Washington Football Team who
say they witnessed or endured sex-
ual harassment by team executives
demanded Thursday that the NFL
make public its investigation into
the team’s workplace.
The letter to Commissioner Rog-
er Goodell is part of a campaign by
former employees and women’s
rights groups to ramp up pressure
on the league and hold team owner
Daniel Snyder accountable for
what they describe as a “sexually
hostile work environment.” Snyder
has pledged to address any prob-
lems in the team’s workplace. Cin-
dy Minniti, an attorney represent-
ing the team and Snyder, declined
to comment.
To preempt a potential claim by
the NFL that the report cannot be
released for privacy reasons, the
former employees said they were
told by investigators that the report
would not contain their names or
identifying information. If the re-
port does include names, they can
be redacted, the former employees
wrote in their letter.
Seventeen former employees’
names were signed to the letter.
Three unnamed “Jane Does” were
also included.
“We shared our experiences, of-
ten at great emotional cost, taking
you at your word that the investiga-
tion would be conducted transpar-
ently and in good faith, and that the
NFL would take appropriate steps
in response,” the letter says. “But
there cannot be accountability
without transparency.”
Attorneys Lisa Banks and Debra
Katz, who represent 40 former
team employees, sent a separate
Ex-team employees and women’s rights groups want to hold owner
Daniel Snyder accountable for the team’s work environment.
Kieboom not feeling heat to hold spot at hot corner
NATIONALS FROM D1
said, “That’s a fair question.”
Then he detailed why the fair
question didn’t apply to him.
“This game is crazy and works
in mysterious ways. Anybody
who’s played it knows you’re go-
ing to go through a time where
you’re going to struggle,” Kie-
boom explained. “And it happens,
and it sucks. But it’s life. What do
we do? We wake up the next day,
and we try all over again.
“That’s all I’ve done, and that’s
kind of just been my motto: Every
day is a new day. Especially when
you’re being scrutinized, espe-
cially when you’re in the big
leagues. It’s highlighted. It’s em-
phasized a lot more.”
Since Rendon left after the
2019 season, each of Kieboom’s
missteps has burned beneath a
magnifying glass. He already had
stumbled through 10 games in
2019.
But the next spring brought
skepticism whether he could
transition to third base. He
looked a bit shaky in drills. He
later made a handful of errors in
exhibitions. Then he figured out
the defense in time for his bat to
slip.
His final 2020 line was
122 plate appearances, 19 singles,
one double and no other hits. His
on-base-plus-slugging percent-
age was .556. He dealt with a
groin strain in July, was sent
down in August, then ended the
season early after he was hit by a
95-mph fastball in September.
The left wrist contusion required
rest to start the winter. Yet once
he was cleared to hit, Kieboom
began tinkering with his stance
and swing in Atlanta.
Along with Jay Hood, his usual
offseason trainer, Kieboom no-
ticed that his hands were too low
and too close to his body. He
focused on getting himself in a
better starting position at the
plate. A simpler approach, he
believes, will get him back to the
mechanics he thrived with in the
. THE WASHINGTON POST
letter to Goodell that noted that the
league has released some past in-
vestigations into potential miscon-
duct.
In 2015, the NFL released the
full, 96-page report of a four-
month investigation, conducted by
former FBI director Robert S.
Mueller III, into its handling of
Baltimore Ravens running back
Ray Rice’s assault on his then-fian-
cee.
“Not to do so here would be a
betrayal of the many women who
courageously came forward to pro-
vide vital information to assist with
the NFL investigation,” the attor-
neys said.
NFL spokesman Brian McCar-
thy said Thursday the league has
not received the report from Wash-
ington attorney Beth Wilkinson,
who was tapped to lead the investi-
gation over the summer when The
Washington Post began publishing
stories describing dozens of allega-
tions of sexual harassment.
Wilkinson did not respond to a
request for comment Thursday on
the status of her investigation.
The league declined to comment
on the letters, referring to com-
ments made by Goodell before the
Super Bowl this month. Goodell
said Wilkinson is “nearing the
completion” of the probe, and he
said the team “has made a lot of
changes already.”
Among those changes: a recent-
ly announced decision to “rein-
vent” the team’s cheerleading pro-
gram, casting the future of the pro-
gram in doubt. The team’s new
president, Jason Wright, an-
nounced that change this month,
after the team reached confidential
settlements with former cheer-
leaders who appeared in lewd vid-
eos that team employees secretly
produced from outtakes of 2008
and 2010 swimsuit calendar
shoots.
beth.reinhard@washpost.com
mark.maske@washpost.com
Liz Clarke and Will Hobson contributed
to this report.
JOHN MCDONNELL/THE WASHINGTON POST
Carter Kieboom, a former top prospect, understands the scrutiny he is under from Nationals fans.
minors.
“It starts with me,” Kieboom
said of making minor tweaks.
“ ’Cause I know how I feel. No one
else can really explain how I feel.
And the feeling I had wasn’t free,
you could say. It wasn’t this loose,
free feeling at the plate. It felt
very tied up at times, and that’s
not a feeling I used to have, that
I’ve ever had until really last
year.”
While he trained, the Nationals
added Josh Bell and Kyle Schwar-
ber to lift a sagging offense. They
did not, however, look to do so
with the available options at
third.
Washington’s needs go beyond QB spot
WASHINGTON FROM D1
A No. 2 wide receiver
Terry McLaurin topped
1,000 receiving yards, had the
fifth-most yards after the catch
(478) among starting wideouts
and accounted for 21 percent of
Washington’s yards from scrim-
mage last year. And he did it
while starting alongside four dif-
ferent “No. 2” wide receivers who
had little experience, leaving him
vulnerable to double teams and
bracket coverages.
Kelvin Harmon (ACL) is ex-
pected to be healthy in time for
training camp, and Washington
found potential in Cam Sims and
Isaiah Wright. But they alone
won’t suffice.
Washington made a competi-
tive offer to Amari Cooper last
offseason, so it could look to
spend big again and sign Chica-
go’s Allen Robinson II, Tampa
Bay’s Chris Godwin or Detroit’s
Kenny Golladay — if they actually
make it to free agency and aren’t
franchise-tagged or re-signed by
their respective teams.
Another impending free agent
to watch is Curtis Samuel, who
was drafted in the second round
by the Carolina Panthers in 2017,
when Rivera was their head
coach, Marty Hurney was their
general manager and Scott Tur-
ner was their quarterbacks
coach. With his ability to be used
in multiple ways, including as a
runner, Samuel has the type of
versatility that Rivera has valued
with Washington.
“With Samuel, you’re probably
looking at the $9 million-$10 mil-
lion a year range,” Over the Cap
founder Jason Fitzgerald said.
“He’s probably looked at like a
‘No. 2-plus’ wide receiver, a little
bit of a gadget guy. With Robin-
son, you’re talking probably close
to $20 million a year. Robinson,
Chris Godwin, Kenny Golladay —
those guys are all going to be like
$17 million, $18 million,
$19 million, $20 million players.”
More tight ends
In signing him last offseason,
Washington believed Logan
Thomas, a former quarterback,
could be a productive tight end in
Turner’s system, which relies
heavily on the position. The team
was right. Thomas was one of the
most productive in the league in
his first full season at the posi-
tion. But behind him, Washing-
ton received little offensive pro-
duction from Jeremy Sprinkle,
who is more of a blocking tight
end and will be a free agent in
March; Marcus Baugh; and
Temarrick Hemingway.
Tight ends can be costly in free
agency, but Washington could be
among the teams interested in
Hunter Henry if he isn’t tagged or
Justin Turner and DJ LeMa-
hieu were free agents. Kris Bryant
and Eugenio Suárez were ru-
mored trade candidates. Kie-
boom’s name floated through
multiple reports of whom the
Nationals could deal to land a
veteran at his position. But Rizzo
says now that they never consid-
ered moving Kieboom or making
a change at third.
“If we listened to Twitter
world, we would have gotten rid
of Robin Ventura when he was
0 for 48 or something like that in
his early days in the big leagues,”
Rizzo said last week. “So these
things . . . it’s hard to judge on
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Kelvin Harmon’s return from injury could boost a wideout group that is one of several requiring help.
re-signed by the Los Angeles
Chargers. Tennessee’s Jonnu
Smith has been productive in
recent seasons and could become
an unrestricted free agent.
The draft class has some nota-
ble talent, led by Florida’s Kyle
Pitts and Penn State’s Pat Freier-
muth, and Miami’s Brevin Jordan
has the type of versatility that
could intrigue Washington.
New deal for Scherff
Washington wants to keep
starting right guard Brandon
Scherff on a long-term deal, but it
still could use the franchise tag
on him for a second time, if only
to buy more time for negotia-
tions. The deadline to designate
franchise players is March 9, but
teams and players have until July
15 to try to reach long-term deals
instead.
Scherff will get paid hand-
somely one way or the other. On a
long-term deal, the floor is prob-
ably $15 million in average an-
nual value. The second franchise
tag would be costly for Washing-
ton, at $18 million for next sea-
son.
“If you want to ensure he’s
around for another year, yes, but
when you do that, you’re setting
the negotiations at something
which is way above the guard
market because there’s not even a
$15 million-per-year guard, and if
you tag me for $18 million, I’m
using that as, ‘Hey, that’s what we
should be talking about as a long-
term deal,’ ” former agent and
current CBS Sports analyst Joel
Corry said.
While $15 million is a hefty
price to pay for a guard, it would
solidify the right side of Washing-
ton’s line through at least 2022;
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these short snippets of games and
at-bats. And we have to lean
toward our evaluators who have
seen him through years and pro-
gressed through the system and
trust that he’s the player that we
think he is.”
Ventura hit .178 in his first
month with the White Sox, whom
Rizzo scouted for in the 1980s and
’90s. But Ventura finished sev-
enth in rookie of the year voting
the next season. The doubt van-
ished, and he had a long, success-
ful career as a corner infielder.
Perhaps that will be Kieboom’s
fate after all.
jesse.dougherty@washpost.com
center Chase Roullier just signed
a new four-year contract, and
right tackle Morgan Moses has
two years remaining on his deal.
And replacing a player such as
Scherff — who fits the mold of
player Rivera is searching for in
his cultural rebuild — will be
difficult.
The rest of Washington’s
patchwork line surprisingly held
up last season, but its left tackle
job remains unsettled. Cornelius
Lucas finished the year at the
position while Geron Chris-
tian Sr. recovered from an injury.
Saahdiq Charles, who is recov-
ering from knee surgery, could be
an option at left tackle, but in his
two snaps last season, he played
guard. With few options under
the age of 30 in free agency, Wash-
ington could look to the draft for
help at tackle.
Linebackers
Washington is still stacked on
the defensive line, even with the
likely exit of Ryan Kerrigan. But
the second level was a problem
last year. Rivera was publicly crit-
ical of the inside linebackers ear-
ly last season, especially against
the run, although he did note
their improvement as the season
went on.
But Kevin Pierre-Louis will be
a free agent, Thomas Davis Sr. is
retired, and Shaun Dion Hamil-
ton is gone. Jon Bostic has a year
left on his contract, but the team
would save close to $2.7 million if
it cut or traded him, leaving Cole
Holcomb as the centerpiece of
the group.
Washington needs an upgrade
at the position but also depth.
One potential option in free agen-
cy is Matt Milano, the former
NFL NOTES
McVay takes the blame
for Rams’ o≠ensive ills
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Sean McVay says he can’t talk
about Matthew Stafford until the
new league year begins in mid-
March and the Los Angeles Rams’
blockbuster quarterback trade is
official.
He’s still allowed to talk about
Jared Goff, but the coach isn’t
saying much.
In his first public comments
since the Rams agreed to ship
Goff to Detroit, McVay gave only a
few minor insights into the ways
he feels everything went wrong
with his franchise quarterback
just two years after they reached
the Super Bowl together.
“I don’t know that really a lot
changed,” McVay said of the peri-
od between that Super Bowl run
and the Rams’ decision four
weeks ago to move on from Goff,
their No. 1 draft pick and McVay’s
starter over four winning seasons
with 42 victories, two NFC West
titles and three playoff wins.
“There’s just so many things
that have taken place since then,”
McVay added. “I think what I
would say that I learned over the
last handful of years is things
change by the day and you prob-
ably want to be careful making
blanket statements when you
can’t predict the future.”
McVay had never been shy
about professing his confidence
in Goff, even when the quarter-
back’s performances didn’t ap-
pear commensurate with the
$110 million guaranteed in the
contract extension the Rams
handed him in September 2019.
McVay wouldn’t say what
made him decide to break up with
Goff. McVay followed his usual
line instead, accepting a large
share of the blame for the Rams’
offensive decline while compli-
menting Goff ’s growth and lead-
ership.
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safety who converted to lineback-
er for the Buffalo Bills. Corry says
the average pay for a player such
as Milano is $12 million-$14 mil-
lion a year. Washington — unlike
Buffalo — has the cap space to
make it happen, but it could turn
to the draft for help.
Cornerback
Washington’s most expensive
free agent last year proved to be
one of its most valuable. Kendall
Fuller’s versatility and experi-
ence bolstered a group that fea-
tured many young and relatively
inexperienced players, and stabi-
lizing the group around him is
paramount.
Ronald Darby, who signed a
one-year contract with Washing-
ton last season, received praise
from Rivera at season’s end, and
the team could look to re-sign
him on a longer-term deal. Doing
so could come at a steep cost;
Corry believes Darby would want
close to $10 million a year, simi-
lar to what Bradley Roby received
from Houston last year.
“And the other thing is this
really isn’t a good year for corner-
backs in free agency,” Fitzgerald
said. “It’s guys like William Jack-
son and Desmond King, a lot of
uncertainty. They might not see
an easy path to replace him.”
Washington also could use a
reliable slot corner, a position
that has become an unofficial
starting job in the NFL because
teams play the majority of their
defensive snaps in subpackages.
Jimmy Moreland was used most
in the slot last year, with mixed
results. Fabian Moreau dabbled
in the slot late in the year, but he
will be a free agent.
nicki.jhabvala@washpost.com
“There are a lot of things when
I self-reflect that I wish I was
better for him in some instances,”
McVay said.
McVay said there’s an “unfair
narrative” around the Rams
blaming their offensive regres-
sion over the past two seasons
solely on Goff. The Rams were
among the NFL’s highest-scoring
teams in McVay’s first two sea-
sons but have slid to the middle of
the pack since.
“That’s not true at all,” McVay
said. “I have a big hand in that. I
have to look myself in the mirror
and take ownership of that. . . .
Sometimes you get too much
credit and too much blame, but
I’m not going to run away from
the blame that’s deserved on my
end.”
l TITANS: Tennessee waived
wide receiver Adam Humphries
after he played only 19 games
over the past two seasons.
The Titans also waived defen-
sive backs Chris Milton and Bre-
on Borders and signed defensive
lineman Jullian Taylor to a con-
tract.
Humphries signed a four-year
contract worth up to $36 million
with Tennessee in 2019. Injuries
limited him to 12 games his first
season, and he played only seven
games in 2020.
l BRONCOS: Jurrell Casey’s
stint in Denver lasted just three
games.
The Broncos released the vet-
eran defensive tackle, freeing up
about $12 million in salary cap
space two weeks after the release
of veteran cornerback A.J. Bouye
saved them a similar amount
against the cap.
The Broncos are projected to
have more than $40 million in
salary cap space as they head into
free agency under new general
manager George Paton, who took
over from John Elway.
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Cheering at torch relay is discouraged
Tokyo Games officials
want large crowd online
but not in the streets
BY S IMON D ENYER
tokyo — With the Olympic flame
at its heart, the role of the torch
relay is “to arouse joy and excite-
ment for the Games” across the
host nation. That’s the message
Tokyo 2020 officials put out Thurs-
day. But, they warned, be careful
how you express your joy — and
definitely don’t get too excited.
“We ask that spectators refrain
from cheering and shouting,”
Yukihiko Nunomura, a senior
member of the organizing com-
mittee, said at a news conference,
explaining that spectators will be
expected to wear masks. “Please
cheer by clapping your hands,” he
added.
Spectators aren’t being dis-
couraged from attending, orga-
nizers stressed. But crowds are, if
you can work out when a group of
spectators becomes a crowd.
“If by any chance, any dense
gatherings happen on streets, the
torch relay can be stopped as we
prioritize safety and security,”
Nunomura said.
The tamped-down torch relay
will begin March 25 in the north-
eastern prefecture of Fukushima,
which was hit by an earthquake
and a tsunami in 2011. The flame is
supposed to travel through all of
Japan’s 47 prefectures before ar-
riving in Tokyo for the July 23
Opening Ceremonies. But the
route may be modified based on
the pandemic situation, organiz-
ers said.
The relay will be live-streamed
to deter mass gatherings on
streets.
“We ask people to watch the
live stream to avoid overcrowd-
ing,” Nunomura said. “But if there
aren’t crowds, we want people to
actively join on-site and enliven
the mood.”
Celebrities have been enlisted
to carry the torch and help gener-
ate excitement — but, again, not
too much. Organizers said they
had asked torchbearers not to
reveal their running slots in case
crowds turn up to see them.
One torchbearer, comedian At-
sushi Tamura, pulled out earlier
this month after the then-presi-
dent of the organizing committee,
Yoshiro Mori, suggested the
Olympics will be held regardless
Geddert charged, then dies by suicide
GEDDERT FROM D1
gymnasts who molested hun-
dreds of girls in Michigan and at
elite gymnastics events around
the globe.
Geddert and Nassar worked
closely for years, with the doctor
regularly providing treatment at
Geddert’s Twistars USA Gymnas-
tics facility, located in Dimondale,
Mich., near Lansing. Three of Nas-
sar’s sexual assault convictions
stem from abuse that took place at
the gym, and during Nassar’s 2018
sentencing hearing, Geddert was
named by several victims as en-
abling Nassar, ignoring signs of
abuse and using his own abusive
coaching tactics.
In the wake of those comments,
USA Gymnastics suspended Ged-
dert, and the coach promptly an-
nounced his retirement. Ged-
dert’s wife, Kathryn, took over
ownership of the gym. Nessel said
she isn’t facing any charges relat-
ed to Geddert’s alleged crimes.
The gym was sold this month to
new owners, who quickly re-
branded it Capital City Flips.
Attorney John Manly, who rep-
resents most of the “Fierce Five”
U.S. team that reached the podi-
um in London, including Aly Rais-
man and McKayla Maroney, said
he spoke to several victims Thurs-
day who had experienced a wild
swing of emotions.
“When he was indicted and
they found out he was going to be
arrested and they actually found
out he’d be charged with real felo-
nies and he’d see the inside of a jail
cell, there was a sense of jubi-
lance,” Manly said in a telephone
interview Thursday evening. “To
learn that he [died by suicide], it’s
just a sense of hopelessness and
frustration and, frankly, rage.”
Manly, an outspoken critic of
USA Gymnastics and the U.S.
Olympic and Paralympic Commit-
tee, said Geddert’s death robs
Geddert’s victims of justice and
any semblance of closure. Many of
Manly’s clients had waited years
to see Geddert face charges be-
cause, as Manly said, “without
John Geddert, there is no Larry
Nassar.”
In a statement, a spokesperson
for USA Gymnastics said the or-
ganization hoped the newly filed
charges against Geddert “would
lead to justice through the legal
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The Olympic torch relay will begin March 25 and continue through
Japan’s 47 prefectures until the day of the Opening Ceremonies.
of the pandemic circumstance
and said celebrities should carry
the torch through rice paddies to
avoid spectators.
Mori has since resigned, after
saying women talk too much at
meetings, and about 1,000 volun-
teers, or 1 percent of the total,
withdrew in protest of his com-
ments and concerns over the pan-
demic. Mori’s successor, Seiko
Hashimoto, said Thursday she
hoped to have more clarity on
whether and how to accommodate
spectators for the Games by the
time the torch relay starts next
month.
Being a torchbearer won’t be as
much fun as in other Games.
During the two weeks before run-
ning, torchbearers are being
asked to refrain from anything
that might expose them to the
virus, such as eating out or going
to crowded places.
They won’t be given a coronavi-
rus test unless they feel sick, but
they will be asked to complete a
daily health checklist and wear
masks when not running. On
their relay day, they also will be
asked “to refrain from talking
loudly on buses and at reception
desks.”
There had been talk of truncat-
ing the torch relay given the risks,
but organizers decided to plow on
with the event, which is spon-
sored by companies such as Coca-
Cola and Toyota.
Local sponsors have poured
about $3.5 billion into these
Olympics, according to the Asso-
ciated Press. The official price tag
process.”
“With the news of his death by
suicide, we share the feelings of
shock, and our thoughts are with
the gymnastics community as
they grapple with the complex
emotions of today’s events,” the
statement read.
Said Sarah Hirshland, the USO-
PC chief executive: “It’s the voices
of the survivors that matter most
at this time. They continue to
show bravery and strength in the
most difficult circumstances —
including today’s events.”
Former competitive gymnast
Sarah Klein, who was victimized
by Nassar during the more than 10
years she was coached by Geddert,
issued a statement following the
news of Geddert’s death.
“John Geddert’s escape from
justice by committing suicide is
traumatizing beyond words,”
wrote Klein, now a lawyer special-
izing in sexual abuse cases. “He
tortured and abused little girls,
myself included, for more than
30 years and was able to cheat
justice. Geddert was a narcissistic
abuser. His suicide is an admis-
sion of guilt that the entire world
can now see.”
At Thursday’s news conference,
Nessel accused Michigan State
University of “stonewalling” her
investigation by refusing to re-
lease 6,000 pages of documents
the school’s lawyers have said are
covered by attorney-client privi-
lege.
“I find it unconscionable that
the university would stonewall an
investigation that it requested,”
said Nessel, who implored the
university’s board of trustees to
release the documents during her
news conference.
In a brief statement, Michigan
State board chair Dianne Byrum
said trustees would “discuss the
issue further in the coming
weeks.”
Thursday’s charges and Ged-
dert’s death mark perhaps one of
the last chapters in the years-long
fallout over the serial predation by
Nassar, who assaulted hundreds
of girls and several Olympic stars,
often under the guise of medical
treatment. Nassar, 57, is serving
an effective life sentence between
federal child pornography convic-
tions and state convictions for
sexually assaulting children.
The revelation of his crimes led
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rose to $15.4 billion after the
Games were postponed last year,
but estimates by government au-
ditors suggest it could exceed
$25 billion.
Hopes that Japan will have vac-
cinated a large proportion of its
population in time for the Games
have faded in recent weeks, and
the minister in charge of the coro-
navirus vaccine rollout, Taro
Kono, said Wednesday the Games
are “not on my schedule at all.”
Japan has approved only the
coronavirus vaccine developed by
U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer
and German biotech firm BioN-
Tech, but supplies have been slow
to arrive from Europe. Vaccina-
tions started last week and have
covered fewer than 18,000 medi-
cal workers.
Athletes coming to the Games
are being encouraged to get vacci-
nated, but shots will not be man-
datory, International Olympic
Committee Vice President John
Coates said Thursday.
“Not compulsory; we can’t do
that,” Coates told reporters in
Brisbane, Australia, according to
Reuters.
“But it is certainly being en-
couraged, and the IOC has an
agreement with Covax where it’s
helping to facilitate the distribu-
tion of vaccines.”
Covax is the World Health Or-
ganization’s global vaccine-shar-
ing program.
simon.denyer@washpost.com
Julia Mio Inuma contributed to this
report.
to the resignations of leadership
at Michigan State, USA Gymnas-
tics and the USOPC and a
$500 million settlement between
Nassar’s victims and Michigan
State. Geddert is among five peo-
ple who were charged with crimes
relating to Nassar’s abuses, a list
that includes former Michigan
State president Lou Anna Simon,
as well as the school’s former med-
ical school dean and gymnastics
coach. The charges against Simon
were later dismissed.
Angie Povilaitis, the lead pros-
ecutor in the Nassar case, spoke to
victims of coaching abuse in a
tweet following news of Geddert’s
suicide, writing: “A lot of folks
may not realize how heavy & hard
today’s news of John Geddert’s
suicide is [for] many victims or
former gymnasts. Speaking to
them directly: HE made his deci-
sions & choices-ALL OF THEM.
None of the weight of his choices
or burdens should be yours to
[bear].”
During Nassar’s sentencing
hearing in 2018, former gymnast
Makayla Thrush said in a victim’s
impact statement that Geddert,
her former coach at Twistars, told
her to kill herself on multiple oc-
casions. Geddert was named in
the lawsuit against Nassar, Michi-
gan State University and USA
Gymnastics but wasn’t facing
criminal abuse charges at the
time.
“Do you remember the time
when you got so mad at me — I
don’t even know why; that is just
who you are — and you threw me
on top of the low bar, ruptured the
lymph nodes in my neck, gave me
a black eye and tore the muscles in
my stomach? Well, you did, and
that ended my career, John,”
Thrush said at the hearing.
“You told me to kill myself —
not just once, but many other
times. And unfortunately I let you
get the best of me, because after
you ended my career, I tried.”
rick.maese@washpost.com
will.hobson@washpost.com
Liz Clarke contributed to this report.
If you or someone you know needs
help, call the National Suicide
Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK
(8255). You can also text a crisis
counselor by messaging the Crisis
Text Line at 741741.
Torri Huske of Yorktown, here winning the 100-yard butterfly, set two national high school records.
VIRGINIA CLASS 6 SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIP
Huske has golden finish to her career
BY J AKE L OURIM
Torri Huske is set for the U.S.
Olympic swimming trials in June
and could swim in Tokyo later in
the summer, so Thursday’s Vir-
ginia Class 6 state championship
probably will be just a footnote
for an emerging star.
But Huske had one last state-
ment to make before she closed
her Yorktown career on her way
to Stanford and probably the in-
ternational stage. The senior set
two national high school records
in one remarkable night at Jeff
Rouse Swim Center in Stafford,
winning the 200-yard individual
medley in 1 minute 53.73 seconds
and the 100-yard butterfly in
49.95.
A high school season so close to
the Olympic trials in June pre-
sented a tricky balance for Huske.
While she kept her focus on the
summer, she held, in Coach Torey
Ortmayer’s eyes, a desire to “do
something memorable.”
And yet, “It wasn’t the be-all,
end-all,” Huske said. “. . . I rested
Reese makes presence felt for Terps
MARYLAND 88,
PURDUE 59
BY K AREEM C OPELAND
Lauded freshman Angel Reese
returned earlier this week for the
No. 8 Maryland women’s basket-
ball team, working into the Terra-
pins’ rotation slowly in her first
game back from a broken foot. On
Thursday night at Purdue, the
highest-ranked recruit in Mary-
land history gave a reminder of
what the fuss was all about.
Reese, considered the No. 2 re-
cruit in the country by some out-
lets, scored a game-high 17 points
in just 20 minutes as the Terps led
from start to finish in an 88-59
victory in West Lafayette, Ind.
Maryland (18-2, 14-1 Big Ten)
won its seventh straight game and
has two regular season games re-
maining before the Big Ten tour-
nament. The Terrapins have a one-
game conference lead over No. 11
Indiana.
“It feels really good, still have a
lot of work to do offensively and
defensively,” Reese said. “It’s al-
ways been whatever the team
needs me to do. I let the game come
to me. I don’t ever really have to
force a shot. So if I need to just
rebound and defend, I can do that.
“The team has been rolling
without me, and I’m just going to
pick up where I left off and add to
whatever they need to add to in
the long run. Our main goal is to
win a national championship.”
The Terrapins, the highest-
scoring team in the nation, led by
18 at halftime after a slow start.
They were up just 16-9 after the
first quarter, one of their lowest-
scoring quarters of the season.
Reese was a big reason it wasn’t
their worst quarter of the season.
She had an offensive rebound put-
back and a buzzer-beating corner
three-pointer to close the opening
period.
Maryland shot just 41.2 percent
over the first 10 minutes.
“I thought our legs looked a
little heavy,” Maryland Coach
Brenda Frese said. “But I thought
we could get on the glass a lot
more. With some of our shots
falling short, the rebounding
piece for me was a big one. I
thought it was a terrific response
by the team.”
The Boilermakers (6-14, 3-13)
were put away in the second quar-
ter, when Maryland used a 14-3
run to take a 32-16 lead. Three of
those baskets came in transition
on layups from Reese, Diamond
Miller and Ashley Owusu. The
Terps led 44-26 at halftime, and
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for this meet, but I didn’t fully
taper.”
The result: She was strong
enough to break her own records
and still might have another gear.
In a condensed meet, Huske
broke both records within about a
half-hour. Her performance lifted
Yorktown to the Class 6 team title,
too: Huske swam the first leg on
the Patriots’ winning 200-yard
and 400-yard freestyle relay
teams.
Huske became the first high
school swimmer to finish the
100-yard butterfly in under
50 seconds, a mark she has sought
for more than a year. She won by
4.47 seconds over Colgan’s Aris
Runnels, an absurd margin for a
50-second race, and now has four
straight state titles in the event.
“The thing is, with her,” Ort-
mayer said, “she’s able to break
state records pretty much any
night that she’s in a champion-
ship meet like this.”
A fellow Olympic hopeful, Bat-
tlefield sophomore Camille
Spink, also continued a dominant
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Freshman forward Angel Reese, right, scored a game-high 17 points
in just 20 minutes as the No. 8 Maryland women improved to 18-2.
Maryland at Northwestern
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Purdue did not get closer than 17
in the second half.
The integration of Reese will be
one of the interesting subplots for
the Terrapins as they get ready for
the postseason. Maryland has
been winning by an average of
31.7 points during the seven-game
streak, and Frese is understand-
ably reluctant to mess with that
chemistry.
Reese added nine rebounds,
three blocks and two steals in her
second game back. She was three
points shy of her career high and
has been held to fewer than
15 points in only two of her six
games. Those two were the game
in which she broke her foot in the
first quarter and her return Tues-
day, when she played less than
13 minutes.
Miller scored 16 points on 6-for-
12 shooting and grabbed five re-
bounds while Mimi Collins had
13 points and six rebounds. Owusu
had a rare bad shooting night
(6 for 16) and still tallied 13 points,
six rebounds and five assists. Faith
Masonius kicked in 10 points,
eight rebounds and five steals.
“They were trying to stop all the
guards,” Collins said. “Everything
was open for me, Angel and Faith,
and everything was just working
for us. Plus, we’re a very, very, very
. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 , 2021
WILL NEWTON FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
high school career. She won the
100-yard freestyle with a state
record 48.93, and she earned gold
in the 50-yard freestyle at 22.55.
She already has qualified for the
Olympic trials in the 100 free-
style.
When Spink entered the pool
for the last leg of the 200-yard
medley relay, Battlefield was in
fourth place.
After she swam a 21.74-second
split, her team won by 2.23 sec-
onds. Battlefield finished second
in the meet, followed by Madison,
the four-time reigning state
champion.
In the boys’ meet, Anthony
Grimm won the 50-yard freestyle
at 19.69 and the 100-yard breast-
stroke at 53.84, narrowly break-
ing his state record of 53.86.
Grimm also helped Oakton win
two relays.
Ocean Lakes won the boys’
meet over Woodson, whose junior
Aiken Do finished second in the
50-yard freestyle and first in the
100.
jake.lourim@washpost.com
unselfish team. We had so many
assists [21] . . . and it just goes to
show that all 11 of us can score at
any time, so we’re truly 11 strong.”
The Terps rallied to shoot
49.3 percent for the game and
outrebounded the Boilermakers
50-26 with 20 second-chance
points. The advantage was 16-4 in
the third quarter alone. Maryland
bullied its way to 54 points in the
paint, and it knocked down just
five three-pointers for a team that
leads the nation with nine threes
per game.
Kayana Traylor scored a team-
high 15 points for Purdue, Brooke
Moore added 13, and Fatou Di-
agne finished with 12 points and
10 rebounds.
The NCAA Reveal on Feb. 15
slotted Maryland as a No. 2 seed in
the tournament and No. 7 overall.
Purdue Coach Sharon Versyp said
she believes the Terrapins are a
No. 1 seed.
“Very flattering of Sharon to be
able to say that,” Frese said. “But
none of it matters if you go to your
next game and don’t take care of
business. So for us, it’s really just
staying in this process with the
next game, next practice that we
have.
“For us, we’re just trying to get
better every time we step out. The
number one seed, it will control
itself by how you play.”
kareem.copeland@washpost.com
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COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Wolverines
pass latest
Big Ten test
with ease
MICHIGAN 79,
IOWA 57
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AND STAFF REPORTS
Hunter Dickinson gave Luka
Garza fits around the basket, and
Franz Wagner scored 21 points to
lead No. 3 Michigan to a 79-57 rout
of No. 9 Iowa on Thursday night in
Ann Arbor, Mich.
The Wolverines (17-1, 12-1 Big
Ten) passed yet another test
against a highly ranked opponent,
and they look increasingly alone
atop the Big Ten, where every oth-
er team has at least four confer-
ence losses. Dickinson more than
held his own against Garza in a
much-anticipated matchup of two
standout big men who have
known each other for years. Garza
played at Maret School in D.C., and
Dickinson played at DeMatha.
Garza led the Hawkeyes (17-7,
11-6) with 16 points, but he shot
6 for 19 from the field.
l GONZAGA 89, SANTA
CLARA 75: Corey Kispert scored
25 points, Drew Timme had 16 of
his 18 points in the second half,
and the top-ranked Bulldogs won
their 50th straight home game
with a victory over the Broncos in
Spokane, Wash.
Gonzaga (23-0, 14-0 West Coast
Conference) won its 27th straight
overall dating from last season but
struggled to shake the Broncos.
Guglielmo Caruso led Santa
Clara (10-7, 4-5) with 19 points.
l ILLINOIS 86, NEBRASKA
70: Kofi Cockburn scored
24 points, freshman Adam Miller
added 18, and the fifth-ranked
Fighting Illini handled the Corn-
huskers in Champaign, Ill.
Illinois (17-6, 13-4 Big Ten)
played without star Ayo Dosun-
mu, who broke his nose Tuesday
against Michigan State. Trey
McGowens led Nebraska (5-17,
1-14) with 18 points.
l HOUSTON 81, WESTERN
KENTUCKY 57: In Houston,
Quentin Grimes scored a career-
high 33 points to help the
12th-ranked Cougars (19-3) end the
Hilltoppers’ winning streak at six.
Taveion Hollingsworth led
Western Kentucky (15-5) with
17 points.
No. 1 Huskies claim Big East
Nika Muhl scored 15 of her sea-
son-high 19 points in the first
quarter, and No. 1 Connecticut
won the outright Big East regular
season championship with an
81-49 victory over Creighton in
Omaha.
The Huskies (19-1, 16-0) never
lost a league game in their seven
years in the American Athletic
Conference, and now they’re two
wins away from being perfect in
their return to the Big East.
Temi Carda had a season-high
24 points for Creighton (7-10, 6-7).
l NORTH CAROLINA STATE
83, PITTSBURGH 53: Raina Per-
ez scored 14 points, and the sec-
ond-ranked Wolfpack (16-2, 11-2
ACC) was sharp from outside to
top the Panthers in Raleigh, N.C.
Freshman Sandrine Clesca had
a season-high 12 points to lead the
Panthers (5-12, 3-11.
l TEXAS A&M 73, ALABAMA
67: In Tuscaloosa, Ala., Jordan
Nixon and Kayla Wells each
scored 16 points as the third-
ranked Aggies (21-1, 12-1 SEC) beat
the Crimson Tide for their ninth
consecutive victory.
Jordan Lewis led Alabama (15-7,
8-7) with 21 points.
l SOUTH CAROLINA 68,
MISSISSIPPI 43: In Columbia,
S.C., Zia Cooke scored 17 points
and the fifth-ranked Gamecocks
(19-3, 14-1 SEC) won their
13th consecutive game over the
Rebels (9-10, 3-10).
South Carolina remained on
track for a second consecutive SEC
regular season crown with a show-
down for the title at Texas A&M on
Sunday.
l VIRGINIA TECH 70,
CLEMSON 64: Aisha Sheppard
led all scorers with 27 points and
Elizabeth Kitley scored 24 on 11 of
15 shooting to vault the Hokies
(13-7, 8-7 ACC) past the Tigers in
Clemson, S.C., for their sixth con-
secutive victory.
Delicia Washington led Clem-
son (10-11, 5-11) with 17 points.
Gamecocks land on probation
South Carolina’s men’s basket-
ball program was placed on proba-
tion for two years by the NCAA for
former assistant coach Lamont
Evans accepting between $3,300
and $5,800 in bribes from a sports
agent.
The NCAA’s decision put an end
to South Carolina’s role in the col-
lege basketball corruption case
that began in 2017.
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Tennessee lawmakers try to ban anthem protests
State senators’ efforts
after athletes take knee
raise legal concerns
BY G LYNN A . H ILL
It’s a sequence that has now
become routine. Athletes, in this
case players on the East Tennes-
see State men’s basketball team,
knelt during a pregame national
anthem to protest injustice in-
flicted upon Black Americans,
and a backlash ensued.
But following this episode,
which occurred before the Bucca-
nneers’ game Feb. 15 against
Chattanooga, the objections of
some local fans evolved Monday
into an appeal to the state’s pub-
lic universities by Republicans in
the state Senate to adopt policies
that prohibit “any such actions
moving forward” — a move that,
if carried out, could raise con-
cerns about violating the First
Amendment.
When a picture of players on
one knee surfaced, some fans
expressed outrage at the gesture.
School president Brian Noland
said the team did not intend to
disrespect the military, although
he recognized the resulting
“hurt, the pain and the emotion
that has been evidenced across
this region” in a Feb. 19 board
meeting. Coach Jason Shay ad-
dressed the situation after the
following game.
“It was a decision our team
made prior to the season as a call
to action and empowerment
against racial inequalities and
injustices,” Shay said.
“Our intentions by no means
involve disrespecting our coun-
try’s flag or the servicemen and
women that put their lives on the
line for our nation. . . . No one
knows the sacrifice, the fear, the
pain, the anxiety, the loss that
they’ve experienced fighting for
our country’s freedom and rights.
But many of us don’t know the
same sacrifice, fear, pain and loss
that people of color have had to
endure over 400 years.”
By late last week, the local
lawmakers added their voices to
the chorus of anger. State Rep.
Caps get back on track by beating rivals
CAPITALS FROM D1
to a 2-0 lead on Oshie’s early third-
period goal, the game tilted. The
Penguins scored two goals in a
three-minute span to knot things
before Wilson turned the momen-
tum back to Washington at 12:40
of the third after Kris Letang lost
his stick.
The Capitals had gone nearly a
month since they scored at least
five goals (Jan. 28, a 6-3 win
against the New York Islanders).
The Capitals improved to 2-1-3
against their rivals with two
games remaining between the
teams. They won’t meet again un-
til late April. Washington will now
look ahead to this weekend to
sustain its momentum with a set
of back-to-back road games
against the New Jersey Devils.
Washington finally got off to a
strong start, reversing a recent
trend. The Capitals dominated the
early minutes, with players driv-
ing to the net and creating
chances in the offensive zone.
Backstrom opened the scoring
at 11:20 of the first period, beating
Jarry after a slick seam pass from
defenseman Nick Jensen. It was
Jensen’s third assist in six games
and Backstrom’s team-leading
ninth goal.
Backstrom has 23 points
through 19 games. Wilson is sec-
ond on the team with seven goals.
The Capitals continued to crash
the net and by the second period
had matched their shot total from
Tuesday’s loss to the Penguins.
They finished with 35 shots on
goal.
After Backstrom’s tally, things
got heated, with Wilson being
called for a two-minute minor for
interference after his late shoul-
der-to-chest hit on Mark Jankows-
ki. Jankowski briefly left the game
but was back on the bench for the
start of the second period.
“I thought it was a great hit, but
I haven’t watched it at all in live
time,” Wilson said. “He batted it
out of the air, and I finished him
through the body right after. I
think that’s a great hockey play,
and I’ll watch the replay.”
Wilson and Evgeni Malkin were
jawing back and forth during the
ensuing TV timeout as Wilson sat
in the penalty box. The verbal
exchanges between the teams
continued into the start of the
second period as the intensity in-
creased.
“He just came over to have a
chat,” Wilson quipped.
Oshie then gave the Capitals a
2-0 lead at 3:18 of the third with
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East Tennessee State basketball players drew the ire of legislators
in their state when they protested racial injustice before a game.
Scotty Campbell told WJHL-TV
“there’s a better time than that
song.”
His Republican colleagues ex-
pressed outrage over the peaceful
protest in legislative meetings
and local television news seg-
ments. On Monday, Republican
state senators sent a letter to the
presidents and chancellors of
Tennessee’s public universities.
“During athletic competitions,
our student athletes represent
not only themselves, but also our
universities and all the citizens of
this state, many of whom view
this form of protest as offensive
and disrespectful to the very
thing our National Anthem rep-
resents,” it said. “When they don
the jersey of a Tennessee univer-
sity, they step out of their person-
al roles and into the role of an
ambassador for our state.
“To address this issue, we en-
courage each of you to adopt
policies within your respective
athletic departments to prohibit
any such actions moving for-
ward.”
The suggestion that student-
athletes shed their First Amend-
ment rights when they suit up for
a public university is not a novel
argument, although it is invalid,
according to David L. Hudson Jr.,
an assistant law professor at Bel-
mont University in Nashville.
“This is embarrassing,” Hud-
T.J. Oshie scores a diving goal against Penguins netminder Tristan Jarry early in the third period.
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his one-handed chip shot that beat
Jarry, his fifth goal of the season.
Oshie now has three goals and two
assists in his past three games.
“Yeah, the goal tonight, I mean,
what an individual effort to make
that happen,” Capitals Coach Pe-
ter Laviolette said. “He’s been
good. I think that he’s been a
consistent player for us the entire
year, and it is nice to see him get
rewarded.”
Brandon Tanev cut the Capitals’
lead in half at 4:22 of the third
period with his shorthanded goal.
Three minutes later, Jake Guent-
zel gave the Penguins the equaliz-
er.
“Even when they came back in
it with the shorthanded goal
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son said in an email to The
Washington Post. “The First
Amendment protects the right to
peaceful protest. The lawmakers’
action is an affront to this funda-
mental First Amendment free-
dom.”
Some universities have at-
tempted to impose limitations on
the speech of their student-ath-
letes on the field, the court and
social media, arguing that the
school has control over that
speech because the players are
receiving scholarships.
Clay Calvert, a Florida law
professor and director of the
nonprofit Marion B. Brechner
First Amendment Project, said
student-athletes at public univer-
sities are granted leniency that he
is not as a paid university em-
ployee.
“The argument they would
make is your speech reflects our
speech, but [student-athletes]
are not really employees, and
that’s the situation. They’re being
treated as if they’re employees
delivering a lecture,” Calvert said
in a phone interview.
“The simple fact that a stu-
dent-athlete puts on a uniform
and represents a public univer-
sity . . . that doesn’t sacrifice their
First Amendment rights to free
speech. That argument just
doesn’t hold up.”
Sen. Paul Bailey, one of the
Capitals 5, Penguins 2
PENGUINS ............................... 0 0 2 —
CAPITALS ................................ 1 0 4 —
FIRST PERIOD
Scoring: 1, Capitals, Backstrom 9 (Jensen), 11:20.
Penalties: Eller, WSH (Tripping), 11:40; Wilson, WSH
(Interference), 15:27.
SECOND PERIOD
Scoring: None. Penalties: Carlson, WSH (Interference),
4:03; Malkin, PIT (Hooking), 9:09; Kuznetsov, WSH
(Tripping), 15:36.
THIRD PERIOD
Scoring: 2, Capitals, Oshie 5 (Eller, Carlson), 3:18. 3,
Penguins, Tanev 5, 4:22 (sh). 4, Penguins, Guentzel 7
(Crosby, Letang), 7:22. 5, Capitals, Wilson 7 (Carlson,
Ovechkin), 12:40 (pp). 6, Capitals, Hagelin 2, 18:38 (en).
7, Capitals, Eller 3 (Oshie, Backstrom), 19:08 (en).
Penalties: Letang, PIT (Hooking), 3:32; O’Connor, PIT
(Hooking), 10:53.
SHOTS ON GOAL
PENGUINS ............................. 11 11 6 — 28
CAPITALS .............................. 12 14 9 — 35
Power-play opportunities: Penguins 0 of 4; Capitals 1 of
3. Goalies: Penguins, Jarry 6-6-1 (33 shots-30 saves).
Capitals, Vanecek 8-4-3 (28-26). T: 2:27.
[then] they followed it up and
brought one to the net, still think
the guys were pretty confident on
the bench with how we were play-
ing and what we were doing and if
we kept with it we would come out
with the win,” Laviolette said.
Rookie netminder Vitek Van-
ecek made 26 saves in his 16th
start in net. The 25-year-old low-
ered his goals against average to
2.86. Washington’s back-to-back
games against the Devils this
weekend will come with further
goaltending questions.
letter’s 27 signatories, did not
respond to questions about the
potential legal challenges a pro-
hibition on kneeling could at-
tract. He said in an emailed
statement that players should
stand for the anthem.
“Without the sacrifices of our
veterans, there wouldn’t be an
opportunity for team sports or
perhaps even the opportunity to
receive an athletic scholarship or
public college education. . . . If
players are playing for Tennes-
see’s public university teams,
they should stand for the Nation-
al Anthem and honor those sacri-
fices. It is what should unite us as
Americans, not divide us, and we
should expect no less,” he said.
The day after last month’s at-
tack on the U.S. Capitol, most
players on the Tennessee wom-
en’s basketball team knelt during
the national anthem, drawing
criticism on social media but
eluding the ire of state legisla-
tors.
ETSU’s men’s basketball team
was scheduled to play Virginia
Military Institute on Wednesday.
Noland told WJHL-TV earlier in
the week that he did not “antici-
pate that we will take any actions
during that game that would
reflect negatively upon our oppo-
nents,” but the game was can-
celed — as was the Buccaneers’
previous contest scheduled for
this past Saturday — because of
positive coronavirus tests within
their opponent’s program.
Joe Smith, ETSU’s chief com-
munications officer, said the uni-
versity received the lawmakers’
letter and will review its current
athletic policies. David Whit-
comb, the deputy general counsel
for the University of Tennessee
System, said his office will con-
tinue to study the issue.
State Democratic Party chair
Hendrell Remus, meanwhile,
said he would like to see Republi-
can lawmakers pen a letter con-
demning one of their own, Rep.
Terri Lynn Weaver, who attended
former president Donald Trump’s
rally before the Capitol riot.
Weaver last month told the Ten-
nessean “there wasn’t any vio-
lence going on here” and later
described the day as “epic and
historic.”
glynn.hill@washpost.com
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While Vanecek is expected to
2 get one of the starts in net, the
5
other appears to be up in the air.
Current options include Craig
Anderson, who got his first start
for the Capitals on Sunday in a 4-3
win over the Devils, and Ilya Sam-
sonov, who is on the taxi squad.
The 24-year-old Russian let in four
goals on 19 shots Wednesday night
for the Hershey Bears, the Capi-
tals’ American Hockey League af-
filiate. He was put back on the
team’s taxi squad Thursday.
Samsonov has not played an
NHL game since Jan. 17 after he
tested positive for the coronavirus
Jan. 19. The team has reiterated
that it does not want to rush Sam-
sonov back after his lengthy ab-
sence.
“It is one of those positions that
you got to be on top of your game,”
Laviolette said Wednesday. “You
can be a forward and work your
way in a game or two, but I feel like
there are really important posi-
tions in sports, you talk about a
quarterback or pitcher, you talk
about a goaltender. You are the
last line of defense, and you have
to be on top of your game. And we
are just trying to set him up for
success.”
samantha.pell@washpost.com
D5
NHL ROUNDUP
Five-goal
third helps
New York
rip Boston
ISLANDERS 7,
BRUINS 2
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Anthony Beauvillier scored the
tiebreaking goal in New York’s
five-goal third period, and the Is-
landers beat the first-place Boston
Bruins, 7-2, on Thursday night in
Uniondale, N.Y.
Mathew Barzal had a goal and
an assist, and Adam Pelech, Jor-
dan Eberle, Jean-Gabriel Pageau,
Anders Lee and Oliver Wahlstrom
also scored to help the Islanders
get their second straight win and
improve to 6-0-1 at home. Semyon
Varlamov stopped 34 shots.
New York, which posted its
highest output of the season, beat
Boston for the third time in three
meetings — three of the Bruins’
four regulation losses this season
— to move one point behind Bos-
ton and Washington in the East.
“We understand how tough our
division is top to bottom,” Lee said.
“Boston’s done a phenomenal job
getting off to a good start and we’re
chasing them down. Any time you
can close the gap a little bit, it’s
always a good evening.”
Nick Ritchie and Craig Smith
also scored for Boston, which lost
for the third time in four games.
Jaroslav Halak had 30 saves in his
first game against the Islanders
since leaving in 2018.
Beauvillier put the Islanders
ahead at 5:41 of the third. Halak
stopped Beauvillier’s initial shot,
then swooped in and took the
puck from Trent Frederic in front
and backhanded it past Halak.
l PANTHERS 3, STARS 2: In
Sunrise, Fla., Frank Vatrano
scored the go-ahead goal with 3:10
remaining, and Florida stunned
Dallas with a late comeback.
Aleksander Barkov and Anton
Stralman also scored in the final
six-plus minutes as the Panthers
overcame a 2-0 deficit.
Joe Pavelski and Jamie Benn
scored for Dallas.
Florida scored three times in
3:11 after a nine-minute delay to
repair a section of the boards.
Barkov poked in a loose puck
that bounced behind rookie Jake
Oettinger and sat in the paint near
the goal line with 6:21 left. Stral-
man tied the score on a drive from
the right circle. Vatrano put the
Panthers ahead with a shot from
the slot.
l LIGHTNING 3, HURRI-
CANES 1: In Tampa, Curtis McEl-
hinney stopped 31 shots and
picked up an assist to lead Tampa
Bay past Carolina.
Mikhail Sergachev, Yanni
Gourde and Barclay Goodrow all
scored for Tampa Bay, which has
won three of the four straight
meetings between the teams.
Brett Pesce scored the lone goal
for Carolina, which has lost three
straight in regulation for the first
time since Dec. 21-27, 2019.
l DEVILS 4, SABRES 3 (OT):
Pavel Zacha converted Jesper
Bratt’s drop pass to score 1:17 into
overtime as visiting New Jersey
rallied from two one-goal deficits.
The Devils snapped a three-
game skid by beating an injury-de-
pleted Sabres opponent.
Buffalo opened minus captain
Jack Eichel, who was scratched
after testing a lower-body injury
during the pregame skate. The
Sabres then lost starting goalie
Linus Ullmark, who was sidelined
after stopping all 15 shots he faced
in the first period.
Bratt also scored for the Devils,
while Zacha had two assists to
extend his point streak to eight
games, in which he has three goals
and seven assists.
l BLACKHAWKS 2, BLUE
JACKETS 0: Patrick Kane broke a
scoreless tie in the third period for
his 399th career goal, Malcolm
Subban got his first shutout of the
season, and Chicago swept a two-
game series in Columbus, Ohio.
After combining for 11 goals in
the Blackhawks’ shootout win
Tuesday night, the teams grinded
through scoreless hockey before
Kane grabbed a loose puck in the
neutral zone and beat Joonas Kor-
pisalo with a wrist shot from the
right circle at 8:45 of the third.
l SENATORS 6, FLAMES 1:
Colin White scored twice, Matt
Murray made 29 saves, and Otta-
wa routed visiting Calgary for its
third straight victory.
l RED WINGS 5, PREDA-
TORS 2: Sam Gagner scored three
times, ending a goal drought that
lasted nearly a year, and Detroit
beat visiting Nashville.
l JETS 6, CANADIENS 3: Kyle
Connor scored twice, and host
Winnipeg spoiled Dominique
Ducharme’s debut as Montreal’s
coach.
D6 EZ M2 THE WASHINGTON POST . FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 , 2021

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SC O REB O A RD

P R O BASK E TBA L L HO C KEY COLLEGE BAS K ETBALL

NBA NHL Lightning 3, Hurricanes 1 NCAA men No. 5 Illinois 86, Nebraska 70 No. 1 U-Conn. 81, Creighton 49
EASTERN CONFERENCE HURRICANES ........................... 1 0 0 — 1 EAST Nebraska (5-17) U-CONN. ............................. 27 15 17 22 — 81
EAST GP W L OT Pts GF GA LIGHTNING .............................. 0 1 2 — 3 Mayen 0-3 0-0 0, Walker 3-5 1-1 7, Allen 2-6 1-2 5, Banton
Bryant 87, LIU 80 CREIGHTON ........................ 13 8 14 14 — 49
ATLANTIC W L Pct GB Boston.......................... 17 11 4 2 24 53 43 2-6 2-2 6, McGowens 7-17 3-4 18, Thorbjarnarson 0-1 0-0
Philadelphia .................................22 11 .667 — Washington ................. 19 10 5 4 24 65 65 FIRST PERIOD Buffalo 85, Cent. Michigan 73
0, Webster 5-9 0-0 12, Stevenson 4-8 3-4 12, Andre 3-5
U-Conn. (19-1)
Brooklyn .......................................22 12 .647 1/ N.Y. Islanders............... 19 10 6 3 23 51 45 Fairleigh Dickinson 82, Sacred Heart 69 Nelson-Ododa 4-7 3-3 11, Bueckers 5-12 2-2 13, Muhl
2 Scoring: 1, Hurricanes, Pesce 2 (Fast, Aho), 14:23. 1-3 7, Lakes 1-1 0-0 3, Ouedraogo 0-0 0-0 0, Piatkowski
Toronto ........................................16 17 .485 6 Philadelphia ................. 16 9 4 3 21 55 54 Mount St. Mary’s 72, St. Francis (Pa.) 65, OT 8-13 0-0 19, Westbrook 4-9 0-0 9, Williams 6-12 2-2 16,
0-0 0-0 0, Wood 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 27-61 11-16 70.
New York......................................16 17 .485 6 Pittsburgh.................... 18 10 7 1 21 56 60 SECOND PERIOD St. Francis (N.Y.) 84, Merrimack 71 Edwards 4-5 1-1 9, Griffin 2-3 0-0 4, Poffenbarger 0-0 0-0
New Jersey .................. 15 7 6 2 16 41 44 Wagner 83, CCSU 63 Illinois (17-6) 0, Gabriel 0-0 0-0 0, McLean 0-3 0-0 0, Team 0-0 0-0 0,
Boston..........................................15 17 .469 61/2 Scoring: 2, Lightning, Sergachev 1 (Point), 12:39. Light- Griffith 0-0 0-0 0, Cockburn 8-10 8-10 24, Frazier 1-9 4-4
N.Y. Rangers ................ 17 6 8 3 15 43 46 Totals 33-64 8-8 81
Buffalo ......................... 17 6 8 3 15 44 51
ning SOUTH 7, Miller 8-15 0-2 18, Williams 3-7 1-2 8, Curbelo 4-8 2-2 Creighton (7-10)
SOUTHEAST W L Pct GB Chowan 97, Lees-McRae 90 10, Grandison 4-7 6-7 14, Bezhanishvili 1-4 0-0 2, Bachelor 2-4 0-0 4, Parham 1-3 0-0 2, Ronsiek 3-9 0-1 6,
Charlotte ......................................15 16 .484 — THIRD PERIOD Hawkins 0-1 0-0 0, Hamlin 0-0 1-2 1, Underwood 1-1 0-0
E. Kentucky 81, Belmont 67 Carda 11-19 0-0 24, Dworak 2-8 0-0 6, Griglione 0-2 0-0 0,
Miami ...........................................15 17 .469 1/
2 CENTRAL GP W L OT Pts GF GA Scoring: 3, Lightning, Gourde 5 (Hedman, McElhinney), 2, Bosmans-Verdonk 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 30-62 22-29 86. Brotzki 1-4 0-0 3, Pryor 0-0 0-0 0, Brake 0-0 1-2 1, Horan
Florida .......................... 19 13 4 2 28 62 53 Florida A&M 75, S.C. State 67
Atlanta .........................................14 18 .438 11/2 6:22. 4, Lightning, Goodrow 5, 18:44 (en). Lightning Georgia College 77, North Georgia 62 0-1 0-0 0, Maly 1-6 0-0 3, Totals 21-56 1-3 49
Washington .................................12 18 .400 21/2 Tampa Bay ................... 18 13 4 1 27 64 39 Halftime: Illinois 36-28. Three-point goals: Nebraska
Chicago......................... 21 11 6 4 26 63 61 SHOTS ON GOAL Morehead State 74, Tennessee State 60 5-21 (Webster 2-5, Lakes 1-1, McGowens 1-4, Steven- Three-point goals: U-Conn. 7-21 (Bueckers 1-5, Muhl
Orlando.........................................13 20 .394 3 North Greenville 86, Barton 80
Carolina ........................ 19 12 6 1 25 65 53 son 1-5, Allen 0-1, Mayen 0-1, Thorbjarnarson 0-1, 3-6, Westbrook 1-5, Williams 2-4, Griffin 0-1), Creighton
HURRICANES ......................... 13 12 7 — 32 Southern Wesleyan 88, Erskine 60 Banton 0-3), Illinois 4-23 (Miller 2-8, Williams 1-4,
Columbus ..................... 21 8 8 5 21 60 72 LIGHTNING .............................. 6 8 8 — 22 6-25 (Parham 0-1, Ronsiek 0-4, Carda 2-4, Dworak 2-5,
CENTRAL W L Pct GB Frazier 1-7, Curbelo 0-1, Hawkins 0-1, Grandison 0-2). Griglione 0-2, Brotzki 1-3, Maly 1-6). Assists: U-Conn. 22
Dallas ........................... 15 6 5 4 16 46 40 MIDWEST
x-Milwaukee ................................19 13 .594 — Power-play opportunities: Hurricanes 0 of 6; Lightning 0 Fouled out: Miller. Rebounds: Nebraska 25 (Walker 5), (Bueckers 9), Creighton 14 (Dworak 3). Fouled out:
Nashville ...................... 19 8 11 0 16 44 62
Indiana .........................................15 15 .500 3 of 5. Goalies: Hurricanes, Reimer 8-2-0 (21 shots-19 Detroit 83, Robert Morris 73 Illinois 43 (Curbelo 12). Assists: Nebraska 8 (Thorbjar- None. Rebounds: U-Conn. 41 (Edwards 3-6), Creighton
Detroit.......................... 22 6 13 3 15 44 68
Chicago.........................................15 16 .484 31/2 saves). Lightning, McElhinney 1-1-0 (32-31), Lightning, Fort Wayne 89, Green Bay 84 (2OT) narson 2), Illinois 13 (Curbelo 8). Total fouls: Nebraska 27 (Team 3-3). Total fouls: U-Conn. 8, Creighton 9.
Cleveland......................................12 21 .364 71/2 Vasilevskiy 11-3-1 (0-0). T: 2:36. Illinois 86, Nebraska 70 25, Illinois 19.
Detroit............................................9 23 .281 10 WEST GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Malone 94, Lake Erie 75
Vegas ........................... 16 11 4 1 23 48 34
WESTERN CONFERENCE Maryville (Mo.) 60, Indianapolis 56
St. Louis ....................... 20 10 8 2 22 60 61
Devils 4, Sabres 3 (OT) McKendree 74, Missouri-St. Louis 71 NCAA women GOLF
Los Angeles.................. 18 9 6 3 21 56 49
SOUTHWEST W L Pct GB Miami (Ohio) 74, W. Michigan 66
Arizona......................... 19 9 7 3 21 52 55 DEVILS ............................... 0 1 2 1 — 4 EAST
San Antonio .................................16 12 .571 — Michigan 79, Iowa 57
Minnesota.................... 16 10 6 0 20 50 40 SABRES ............................. 1 1 1 0 — 3
Memphis ......................................14 14 .500 2 Ohio 86, E. Michigan 67
Colorado ....................... 16 9 6 1 19 46 38
SIU Edwardsville 66, UT Martin 53
Bryant 49, Wagner 43 PGA Tour
Dallas ...........................................15 16 .484 21/2 San Jose....................... 17 7 8 2 16 47 64 FIRST PERIOD Mount St. Mary’s 59, Merrimack 58
x-New Orleans .............................14 17 .452 31/2 Walsh 86, Ohio Dominican 75 WGC WORKDAY CHAMPIONSHIP
Anaheim....................... 20 6 10 4 16 40 58 Scoring: 1, Sabres, Sheahan 2 (Olofsson), 6:28.
Houston........................................11 19 .367 6 SOUTH At Concession Golf Club; In Bradenton, Fla.
SOUTHWEST
NORTH GP W L OT Pts GF GA SECOND PERIOD Belmont 79, E. Kentucky 55 Purse: $10.5 million; Yardage: 7,470; Par: 72
NORTHWEST W L Pct GB Houston 81, W. Kentucky 57 Furman 58, Wofford 52
Toronto ........................ 21 15 4 2 32 74 55 Scoring: 2, Devils, Bratt 1 (Zacha), 5:27. 3, Sabres, Prairie View 82, MVSU 62 FIRST ROUND
Utah..............................................26 6 .813 — x-Edmonton ................. 21 13 8 0 26 76 65 Gardner-Webb 73, UNC Asheville 53
Mittelstadt 1 (Miller, Staal), 8:03 (pp).
Portland .......................................18 13 .581 71/2 Winnipeg...................... 19 12 6 1 25 67 52 WEST High Point 84, Longwood 62 Webb Simpson ................................... 34 32 — 66 -6
Denver..........................................17 15 .531 9 Montreal ...................... 19 9 6 4 22 64 58 THIRD PERIOD Kentucky 62, Georgia 58 Matthew Fitzpatrick .......................... 34 32 — 66 -6
Oklahoma City..............................13 19 .406 13 Arizona State 80, Washington 72 Miami 69, Wake Forest 67
Calgary ......................... 21 9 10 2 20 52 62 Scoring: 4, Devils, Wood 6 (Smith, Gusev), 4:25 (pp). 5, Brooks Koepka ................................... 32 35 — 67 -5
Minnesota......................................7 26 .212 191/2 Gonzaga 89, Santa Clara 75 Mississippi State 68, LSU 59
x-Vancouver................. 23 8 13 2 18 68 82 Devils, Hischier 1 (Zacha), 6:45. 6, Sabres, Reinhart 7 Billy Horschel ..................................... 34 33 — 67 -5
UCLA 76, Utah 61 Morehead State 60, Tennessee State 52
Ottawa ......................... 22 7 14 1 15 58 85 (Dahlin, Hall), 15:30 (pp). Sergio Garcia ...................................... 34 33 — 67 -5
Weber State 82, Sacramento State 73 Murray State 78, Jacksonville State 75
PACIFIC W L Pct GB Kevin Kisner ....................................... 34 33 — 67 -5
L.A. Clippers.................................23 11 .676 — x-Late game OVERTIME N. Kentucky 68, Robert Morris 54 Wade Ormsby .................................... 32 36 — 68 -4
L.A. Lakers ...................................22 11 .667 1/ N.C. State 83, Pittsburgh 53 Sungjae Im ......................................... 33 35 — 68 -4
2
WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS Scoring: 7, Devils, Zacha 5 (Smith, Bratt), 1:17. North Carolina 84, Georgia Tech 59
Phoenix ........................................20 11 .645 11/2 Cameron Smith .................................. 36 32 — 68 -4
Golden State ................................18 15 .545 41/2 at Tampa Bay 3, Carolina 0 SHOTS ON GOAL
No. 1 Gonzaga 89, Radford 74, Campbell 71 (2OT) Patrick Reed ....................................... 36 32 — 68 -4
Sacramento..................................12 20 .375 10 Samford 74, Mercer 65 Jon Rahm ............................................ 35 33 — 68 -4
Dallas 3, at Florida 0
DEVILS ............................. 15 11 13 1 — 40 Santa Clara 75 South Carolina 68, Mississippi 43 Tony Finau .......................................... 34 34 — 68 -4
x-Late game at Toronto 2, Calgary 1 (OT) SABRES ........................... 11 12 9 0 — 32 Santa Clara (10-6) Tennessee Tech 62, Austin Peay 57 Scottie Scheffler ................................ 35 34 — 69 -3
at Philadelphia 4, N.Y. Rangers 3 Power-play opportunities: Devils 1 of 4; Sabres 2 of 4. Texas A&M 73, Alabama 67
THURSDAY’S RESULTS Caruso 8-15 1-2 19, Vrankic 6-17 2-4 14, Carlyle 4-8 1-2 9, Sebastian Munoz ............................... 35 34 — 69 -3
Minnesota 6, at Colorado 2 Goalies: Devils, Blackwood 5-2-1 (32 shots-29 saves). Virginia Tech 70, Clemson 64 Joaquin Niemann ............................... 31 38 — 69 -3
J.Williams 4-10 3-4 11, G.Williams 7-10 0-0 18, Tomley
Washington 112, at Denver 110 at Arizona 4, Anaheim 3 (SO) Sabres, Hutton 1-4-1 (25-21), Sabres, Ullmark 5-4-2 2-5 0-0 4, Bediako 0-1 0-0 0, Richards 0-1 0-0 0, Rory McIlroy ....................................... 36 33 — 69 -3
Los Angeles 2, at St. Louis 1 (15-15). T: 2:22. MIDWEST Victor Perez ........................................ 34 35 — 69 -3
at Philadelphia 111, Dallas 97 Reynoso-Avila 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 31-67 7-12 75.
at Brooklyn 129, Orlando 92 Gonzaga (22-0) Cleveland State 69, Illinois Chicago 43 Louis Oosthuizen ............................... 36 33 — 69 -3
THURSDAY’S RESULTS E. Illinois 65, SE Missouri 57 David Lipsky ....................................... 35 35 — 70 -2
at New York 140, Sacramento 121 Kispert 10-17 2-2 25, Timme 7-9 4-5 18, Ayayi 4-13 0-0
at Washington 5, Pittsburgh 2 11, Nembhard 1-5 1-2 4, Suggs 4-10 5-7 13, Cook 3-5 4-5 Illinois State 79, Bradley 59 Lanto Griffin ....................................... 35 35 — 70 -2
at Memphis 122, L.A. Clippers 94
New Orleans at Milwaukee, Late Chicago 2, at Columbus 0 TENNI S 10, Watson 2-2 0-0 4, Gregg 1-2 0-0 2, Ballo 1-1 0-0 2. Maryland 88, Purdue 59 Collin Morikawa ................................. 35 35 — 70 -2
at Ottawa 6, Calgary 1 Totals 33-64 16-21 89. Notre Dame 72, Florida State 64 Jason Kokrak ...................................... 36 34 — 70 -2
FRIDAY’S GAMES Tennessee 78, Missouri 73
at Florida 3, Dallas 2 Halftime: Gonzaga 40-38. Three-point goals: Santa Clara U-Conn. 81, Creighton 49
Houston at Toronto, 7:30 New Jersey 4, at Buffalo 3 (OT) ATP 6-18 (G.Williams 4-6, Caruso 2-4, Tomley 0-2, J.Williams UT Martin 68, SIU Edwardsville 52
Indiana at Boston, 7:30 at N.Y. Islanders 7, Boston 2 OPEN SUD DE FRANCE 0-2, Vrankic 0-4), Gonzaga 7-24 (Kispert 3-8, Ayayi 3-9, Youngstown State 62, Fort Wayne 59 PUERTO RICO OPEN
Atlanta at Oklahoma City, 8 at Tampa Bay 3, Carolina 1 Nembhard 1-3, Cook 0-1, Gregg 0-1, Suggs 0-1, Timme
At Palais des Sports de Gerland; In Montpellier, France 0-1). Rebounds: Santa Clara 27 (Vrankic 11), Gonzaga 37 SOUTHWEST At Grand Reserve Country Club
L.A. Clippers at Memphis, 8 at Detroit 5, Nashville 2 Purse: €262,170; Surface: Hardcourt indoor In Rio Grande, Puerto Rico
at Winnipeg 6, Montreal 3 (Suggs 11). Assists: Santa Clara 12 (Vrankic 4), Gonzaga MVSU 61, Prairie View 57 (OT) Purse: $3 million
Phoenix at Chicago, 8 21 (Suggs 8). Total fouls: Santa Clara 18, Gonzaga 17.
Sacramento at Detroit, 8 Edmonton at Vancouver, Late MEN’S SINGLES — ROUND OF 16 Texas Southern 75, Arkansas Pine Bluff 66 Yardage: 7,506; Par: 72
Utah at Miami, 8 Vegas at San Jose, ppd. (virus) Egor Gerasimov, Belarus, def. Aljaz Bedene, Slovenia, FIRST ROUND
Charlotte at Golden State, 10 6-4, 7-6 (7-4); Peter Gojowczyk, Germany, def. Jiri
FRIDAY’S GAMES Tommy Gainey ................................... 33 32 — 65 -7
Portland at L.A. Lakers, 10 Vesely, Czech Republic, 6-7 (7-3), 7-6 (7-4), 6-3; Ale- No. 3 Michigan 79, No. 8 Maryland 88,
Boston at N.Y. Rangers, 7 jandro Davidovich Fokina, Spain, def. Hubert Hurkacz Robert Garrigus ................................. 33 33 — 66 -6
Los Angeles at Minnesota, 8 (4), Poland, 7-5, 6-2; Dennis Novak, Austria, def. Dusan No. 9 Iowa 57 Purdue 59 Rafael Campos ................................... 33 33 — 66 -6
Lajovic (3), Serbia, 7-6 (7-5), 7-5. Taylor Pendrith .................................. 33 33 — 66 -6
Nets 129, Magic 92 Colorado at Arizona, 9 Iowa (17-7) MARYLAND ........................ 16 28 20 24 — 88 Lee Hodges ......................................... 32 34 — 66 -6
Vegas at Anaheim, ppd. (virus) MEN’S DOUBLES — QUARTERFINALS Garza 6-19 3-3 16, Bohannon 4-10 3-4 13, Fredrick 4-5 0-0 PURDUE ................................ 9 17 15 18 — 59 Greg Chalmers ................................... 30 36 — 66 -6
ORLANDO ........................... 28 19 25 20 — 92 St. Louis at San Jose, ppd. (virus) 9, C.McCaffery 0-2 0-0 0, Wieskamp 4-9 2-2 11, Fabian Gomez .................................... 34 32 — 66 -6
BROOKLYN ......................... 24 41 27 37 — 129 Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow, United Maryland (18-2)
Ke.Murray 3-6 0-0 7, P.McCaffery 0-4 0-0 0, Toussaint Brandon Wu ....................................... 33 33 — 66 -6
States, def. Matwe Middelkoop, Netherlands, and Mar- Bibby 2-6 0-0 4, Collins 5-8 2-2 13, Benzan 1-3 0-0 3,
0-1 1-2 1, Ulis 0-1 0-0 0, Perkins 0-1 0-0 0, Kr.Murray 0-0 Brice Garnett ..................................... 31 36 — 67 -5
ORLANDO: Aminu 1-6 0-0 2, Ennis III 5-5 3-3 15, Vucevic celo Arevalo-Gonzalez (2), El Salvador, 6-4, 7-6 (8-6); Miller 6-12 2-2 16, Owusu 6-16 1-4 13, Masonius 3-7 4-5
0-0 0, Nunge 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 21-59 9-11 57. Josh Teater ........................................ 33 34 — 67 -5
12-23 1-1 28, Carter-Williams 5-8 1-1 11, Fournier 3-9 Roman Jebavy and Jiri Vesely, Czech Republic, def. 10, Reese 6-10 4-5 17, Styles 4-5 0-1 8, Young 0-1 0-0 0,
1-1 8, Bacon 4-10 2-2 11, Clark 0-3 2-2 2, Okeke 0-4 0-0 0, Blackhawks 2, Blue Jackets 0 Sander Arends, Netherlands, and Andrea Vavassori, Michigan (17-1) Kozlova 2-3 0-0 4, Team 0-0 0-0 0, Totals 35-71 13-19 88 Branden Grace .................................... 35 32 — 67 -5
Ross 1-9 2-3 5, Bamba 1-3 0-0 2, Birch 1-2 0-0 2, Randle Italy, 6-4, 7-5; Edouard Roger-Vasselin, France, and Livers 5-8 2-2 16, Dickinson 6-13 2-2 14, Brooks 3-11 0-0 Purdue (6-14) Cameron Percy ................................... 33 34 — 67 -5
BLACKHAWKS ........................ 0 0 2 — 2 7, Smith 3-9 0-0 6, Wagner 9-12 1-2 21, Brown 3-4 0-0 7, Andrew Putnam ................................. 35 32 — 67 -5
2-5 1-2 6. Totals 35-87 13-15 92. BLUE JACKETS ........................ 0 0 0 — 0 Henri Kontinen (1), Finland, def. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Diagne 5-7 2-4 12, Farquhar 2-3 0-0 4, Layden 3-7 0-2 8,
Ugo Humbert, France, 6-3, 6-4. Davis 3-5 0-0 6, Johns 1-5 0-0 2, Williams 0-3 0-0 0, Moore 5-16 1-2 13, Traylor 4-7 7-9 15, Gony 0-1 0-0 0, Mark Anderson .................................. 34 33 — 67 -5
BROOKLYN: Brown 6-9 2-2 14, Harris 5-7 0-0 14, Jordan Faulds 0-0 0-0 0, Howard 0-0 0-0 0, Jackson 0-0 0-0 0, Grant 0-4 0-0 0, Woltman 0-1 0-0 0, Doumbia 1-4 0-1 2, Dalton Ward ....................................... 33 34 — 67 -5
4-8 0-0 8, Harden 7-16 1-2 20, Irving 11-18 4-5 27, Cook
THIRD PERIOD
Wade 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 33-70 5-6 79. Hardin 1-4 0-0 3, Shaya Kyle 1-3 0-0 2, Team 0-0 0-0 0, J.J. Spaun ........................................... 34 34 — 68 -4
0-0 0-0 0, Luwawu-Cabarrot 1-7 2-2 5, Claxton 4-7 2-3 10, Scoring: 1, Blackhawks, Kane 10 (de Haan, Janmark), Totals 22-57 10-18 59 Michael Kim ....................................... 33 35 — 68 -4
Chiozza 2-2 0-0 6, Johnson 2-6 0-0 6, Shamet 7-12 0-0 19. 8:45. 2, Blackhawks, Soderberg 4 (Murphy), 19:10 (en). CORDOBA OPEN Halftime: Michigan 32-29. Three-point goals: Iowa 6-19 David Lingmerth ................................ 32 36 — 68 -4
Totals 49-92 11-14 129. (Bohannon 2-6, Fredrick 1-1, Garza 1-2, Ke.Murray 1-2, Three-point goals: Maryland 5-11 (Bibby 0-2, Collins 1-1, Chase Seiffert .................................... 34 34 — 68 -4
SHOTS ON GOAL At Estadio Mario Alberto Kempee; In Cordoba, Argentina Wieskamp 1-5, C.McCaffery 0-1, P.McCaffery 0-1, Nunge
Purse: $294,235; Surface: Red clay Benzan 1-3, Miller 2-2, Reese 1-2, Kozlova 0-1), Purdue Lucas Glover ....................................... 33 35 — 68 -4
Three-point Goals: Orlando 9-36 (Vucevic 3-7, Ennis III 2-2, 0-1), Michigan 8-17 (Livers 4-5, Wagner 2-3, Brown 1-1, 5-16 (Layden 2-5, Moore 2-4, Traylor 0-2, Grant 0-1,
Randle 1-4, Fournier 1-5, Ross 1-5, Bacon 1-6, Aminu 0-2, BLACKHAWKS ........................ 3 12 12 — 27 Jhonattan Vegas ................................ 34 34 — 68 -4
BLUE JACKETS ........................ 8 3 16 — 27 MEN’S SINGLES — ROUND OF 16 Brooks 1-4, Johns 0-1, Smith 0-1, Williams 0-2). Hardin 1-4). Assists: Maryland 21 (Owusu 5), Purdue 12 Rob Oppenheim .................................. 34 34 — 68 -4
Carter-Williams 0-2, Clark 0-2), Brooklyn 20-45 (Shamet Rebounds: Iowa 31 (C.McCaffery 8), Michigan 39 (Dick- (Layden 4). Fouled out: None. Rebounds: Maryland 50
5-9, Harden 5-10, Harris 4-6, Chiozza 2-2, Johnson 2-5, Power-play opportunities: Blackhawks 0 of 1; Blue Thiago Monteiro (7), Brazil, def. Roberto Carballes
Jackets 0 of 2. Goalies: Blackhawks, Subban 3-1-1 (27 inson, Brooks 8). Assists: Iowa 4 (Fredrick 2), Michigan (Collins 4-6), Purdue 26 (Diagne 5-10). Total fouls:
Irving 1-6, Luwawu-Cabarrot 1-6). Fouled Out: None. Baena, Spain, 6-3, 6-4; Juan Manuel Cerundolo, Argenti- 13 (Smith, Wagner 4). Total fouls: Iowa 13, Michigan 13. Maryland 13, Purdue 11.
Rebounds: Orlando 35 (Vucevic 12), Brooklyn 51 (Jordan shots-27 saves). Blue Jackets, Korpisalo 5-5-4 (26-25). na, def. Miomir Kecmanovic (3), Serbia, 6-7 (7-3), 7-5,
11). Assists: Orlando 19 (Carter-Williams 5), Brooklyn 30 6-2; Diego Schwartzman (1), Argentina, def. Marco
LPGA Tour
(Irving 9). Total Fouls: Orlando 10, Brooklyn 18. Cecchinato, Italy, 6-2, 6-2; Albert Ramos-Vinolas (5), GAINBRIDGE LPGA
Spain, def. Tomas Martin Etcheverry, Argentina, 2-6, 7-6
Senators 6, Flames 1 (7-5), 7-5. No. 12 Houston 81, No. 5 South Carolina 68, At Lake Nona Golf and Country Club; In Orlando
Purse: $2 million; Yardage: 6,701; Par: 72
Knicks 140, Kings 121 FLAMES ................................... 0 1 0 — 1
MEN’S DOUBLES — QUARTERFINALS
W. Kentucky 57 Mississippi 43
SENATORS .............................. 2 2 2 — 6 FIRST ROUND
SACRAMENTO ................... 29 33 32 27 — 121 Joao Sousa, Portugal, and Dominik Koepfer, Germany, W. Kentucky (15-5) MISSISSIPPI ....................... 16 4 11 12 — 43
FIRST PERIOD Williams 3-6 1-1 7, Bassey 3-7 2-2 9, Anderson 2-8 2-2 6, Lydia Ko .............................................. 33 32 — 65 -7
NEW YORK ......................... 38 39 24 39 — 140 def. Oliver Marach, Austria, and Augustin Velotti, SOUTH CAROLINA ............. 22 11 16 19 — 68
Hollingsworth 5-12 7-7 17, McKnight 1-3 1-2 3, Cooper Nanna Koerstz Madsen ...................... 32 35 — 67 -5
Scoring: 1, Senators, Batherson 6 (Stutzle, Anisimov), Argentina, 6-3, 6-4; Andres Molteni and Guillermo Mississippi (9-10) Nelly Korda ......................................... 34 33 — 67 -5
SACRAMENTO: Bagley III 7-12 4-6 19, Barnes 7-12 5-7 7:45. 2, Senators, Gudbranson 1 (Tierney), 9:27. Duran, Argentina, def. Federico Delbonis and Juan 4-6 0-0 9, Rawls 2-3 0-0 6, Milton 0-2 0-0 0, Osawe 0-1
Austin 8-19 6-6 22, Collins 0-5 0-0 0, Kitchens 0-1 0-0 0, Jennifer Kupcho ................................. 36 32 — 68 -4
22, Holmes 4-6 1-2 9, Fox 9-18 8-10 29, Hield 3-9 1-1 9, Ignacio Londero, Argentina, 6-7 (7-3), 7-6 (7-3), 12-10; 0-0 0, Cozart 0-0 0-0 0, Harlan 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 20-48
Johnson 2-11 0-0 4, Reid 1-3 0-0 2, Scott 0-3 2-2 2, Nicole Broch Larsen ........................... 35 33 — 68 -4
James 0-2 0-0 0, Jeffries 2-4 0-0 4, Pelle 0-1 3-4 3, Guy SECOND PERIOD Rafael Matos and Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves, 13-14 57.
Douglas 1-5 0-0 3, Nesbitt 3-10 1-2 7, Smith 1-2 0-0 3, Ryann O'Toole .................................... 34 34 — 68 -4
1-2 0-0 3, Haliburton 6-13 3-3 17, Joseph 3-6 0-0 6. Totals Brazil, def. Franko Skugor, Croatia, and Austin Krajicek Houston (19-3)
Scoring: 3, Flames, Lucic 5 (Dube, Tanev), 1:41. 4, Bracey 0-0 0-0 0, McGee 0-2 0-0 0, Totals 16-61 9-10 43 Xiyu Lin ............................................... 33 35 — 68 -4
42-85 25-33 121. (1), United States, 7-6 (8-6), 5-7, 10-2. Chaney 2-3 2-2 6, Gorham 1-5 0-0 2, Grimes 11-21 3-3 33,
Senators, C.Brown 5, 4:39. 5, Senators, Brannstrom 2, South Carolina (19-3) Jin Young Ko ....................................... 35 33 — 68 -4
NEW YORK: Bullock 4-8 0-0 10, Randle 9-18 1-2 21, Noel 7:24. Jarreau 3-6 2-2 9, Sasser 4-12 2-2 12, Mark 5-8 0-0 12, Boston 1-4 5-6 7, Saxton 5-6 0-0 10, Beal 3-4 1-1 8, Cooke Megan Khang ..................................... 34 34 — 68 -4
4-5 0-0 8, Barrett 5-8 0-0 12, Rose 7-11 2-2 18, Knox II 1-1 Gresham 1-2 0-0 2, White 2-4 1-2 5, Shead 0-1 0-0 0, 7-23 3-4 17, Henderson 2-7 0-0 6, Amihere 3-6 2-5 8, Gaby Lopez ......................................... 35 33 — 68 -4
0-0 3, Pinson 0-0 0-0 0, Toppin 1-3 1-2 3, Gibson 4-5 0-0 9, THIRD PERIOD Roberts 0-0 0-0 0, Tyson 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 29-63 10-11 81. Grissett 3-6 6-8 12, Littleton 0-0 0-0 0, Russell 0-2 0-0 0, Marissa Steen .................................... 35 34 — 69 -3
Burks 8-12 3-3 24, Ntilikina 3-6 0-0 7, Quickley 5-10 Scoring: 6, Senators, White 3 (Paul), 4:55. 7, Senators,
WTA Halftime: Houston 39-38. Three-point goals: W. Ken- Totals 24-58 17-24 68 Chella Choi .......................................... 36 33 — 69 -3
12-12 25. Totals 51-87 19-21 140. White 4 (Chabot, Dadonov), 14:46. tucky 4-17 (Rawls 2-3, Bassey 1-3, Cooper 1-3, Milton Leona Maguire .................................... 33 36 — 69 -3
ADELAIDE INTERNATIONAL Three-point goals: Mississippi 2-12 (Austin 0-2, Collins
Three-point Goals: Sacramento 12-35 (Barnes 3-6, Fox 0-1, Hollingsworth 0-2, Williams 0-2, Anderson 0-3), 0-1, Johnson 0-2, Reid 0-1, Douglas 1-4, Smith 1-1, In Gee Chun ........................................ 36 33 — 69 -3
3-7, Hield 2-7, Haliburton 2-8, Bagley III 1-2, Joseph 0-2),
SHOTS ON GOAL At Memorial Drive Tennis Centre; In Adelaide, Australia Houston 13-31 (Grimes 8-16, Mark 2-3, Sasser 2-7, McGee 0-1), South Carolina 3-9 (Boston 0-1, Beal 1-1, Patty Tavatanakit .............................. 34 35 — 69 -3
FLAMES ................................... 5 10 15 — 30 Purse: $565,530; Surface: Hardcourt outdoor Jarreau 1-2, Gorham 0-1, Shead 0-1, Tyson 0-1). Re- Brittany Lincicome ............................. 36 33 — 69 -3
New York 19-36 (Burks 5-8, Quickley 3-6, Rose 2-2, Cooke 0-3, Henderson 2-3, Russell 0-1). Assists: Missis-
Barrett 2-3, Randle 2-4, Bullock 2-6, Gibson 1-2, Ntilikina SENATORS ............................ 13 10 8 — 31 WOMEN’S DOUBLES — SEMIFINALS bounds: W. Kentucky 24 (Bassey 7), Houston 29 sippi 5 (Reid 5), South Carolina 10 (Henderson 4). Fouled Jeongeun Lee6 ................................... 34 36 — 70 -2
1-3). Fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Sacramento 34 Power-play opportunities: Flames 0 of 0; Senators 0 of 0. (Gorham 8). Assists: W. Kentucky 8 (McKnight 4), out: None. Rebounds: Mississippi 28 (Kitchens 2-4), Morgan Pressel .................................. 33 37 — 70 -2
(Barnes 7), New York 43 (Randle 14). Assists: Sacra- Goalies: Flames, Rittich 1-3-1 (20 shots-16 saves), Alexa Guarachi Mathison, Chile, and Desirae Krawczyk Houston 15 (Gorham 5). Total fouls: W. Kentucky 12, South Carolina 43 (Saxton 3-8). Total fouls: Mississippi Cristie Kerr ......................................... 34 36 — 70 -2
mento 25 (Fox 11), New York 24 (Rose 6). Total Fouls: Flames, Zagidulin 0-0-0 (11-9). Senators, Murray 4-9-1 (3), United States, def. Sabrina Santamaria and Kaitlyn Houston 13. 19, South Carolina 13. Amy Olson .......................................... 35 35 — 70 -2
Sacramento 22, New York 23. (30-29), Senators, Daccord 0-0-0 (0-0). T: 2:19. Christian, United States, 6-1, 6-2. Mariah Stackhouse ............................ 37 33 — 70 -2
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Montgomery County
FOR THE COUNTY OF
MONTGOMERY, MARYLAND
KRISTINE D. BROWN, et al.
Trustee(s)
Plaintiff(s)
vs.
PAULINE E. JARRETT
LARRY JARRETT, SR.
TRUSTEE OF THE PAULINE E. JARRETT
REVOCABLE TRUST
PAULINE JARRETT,
TRUSTEE OF PAULINE E. JARRETT
REVOCABLE TRUST
Defendant(s)
Mortgagor(s)
CIVIL NO. 465921V
NOTICE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THIS
8th day of February, 2021 by the
Circuit Court for the COUNTY OF
MONTGOMERY, Maryland, and by
the authority thereof, that the sale
made by Kristine D. Brown, Wil-
liam M. Savage, Gregory N. Britto,
Trustees, of the Real Property des-
ignated as 3924 Minden Rd., Silver
Spring, MD 20906, and reported
in the above entitled cause, will
be finally ratified and confirmed,
unless cause to the contrary
thereof be shown on or before
the 10th day of March, 2021, next;
provided a copy of this order be
inserted in THE WASHINGTON
POST, 1150 15th Street, Wash-
ington DC, MD published in said
COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY once
a week for three successive
weeks before the 10th day of
March, 2021.
The report states the amount of
the sale to be $398,000.00.
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Clerk of the Circuit Court For
Montgomery County, Maryland
Shapir & Brown,LLP
Trustees File #19-280228
Feb 12, 19, 26, 2021 12335771
851
Prince Georges County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
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INVITATION FOR BID 205194/CABW/2020
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PRICE for the services of International Air Transportation
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
MARYLAND
Diane S. Rosenberg
Mark D. Meyer
Maurice Obrien
Cristian Mendoza
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
4340 East West Highway,
Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814
Substitute Trustees
Plaintiff(s)
v.
Estate of Rosevelt Elzie, Jr.
3341 Chester Grove Road, Unit B
Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
Defendant(s)
Case No. CAEF20-11725
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given this 22nd
day of February, 2021, by the Circuit
Court for Prince George's County,
Maryland, that the sale of 3341
Chester Grove Rd, Unit B, Upper
Marlboro, MD 20774 made and
reported, will be ratified and con-
firmed, unless cause to the con-
trary thereof be shown on or
before the 22nd day of March,
2021, provided a copy of this notice
be inserted in a daily newspaper
printed in said County, once in
each of three successive weeks
before the 22nd day of March,
2021. The Report of Sale states
the amount of the foreclosure sale
price to be $119,000.00.
Mahasin El Amin #544
Clerk of the Circuit Court
Prince George's County, MD
February 1, 8, 15, 2021 12337454
855
Charles County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR CHARLES COUNTY
MARYLAND
Diane S. Rosenberg
Mark D. Meyer
John A. Ansell, III
Maurice OBrien
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
4340 East West Highway
Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814
Substitute Trustees
Plaintiff(s)
v.
Willie James Sims, Jr
12431 Turtle Dove Place,
Waldorf, MD 20602
Defendant(s)
Case No. C-08-CV-19-000569
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given this 4th day
of February, 2021, by the Circuit
Court for Charles County, Mary-
land, that the sale of 12431 Turtle
Dove Place, Waldorf, MD 20602,
made and reported, will be ratified
and confirmed, unless cause to
the contrary thereof be shown on
or before the 9th day of March,
2021, provided a copy of this
notice be inserted in a daily news-
paper printed in said County, once
in each of three successive weeks
before the 8th day of March, 2021.
The Report of Sale states the
amount of the foreclosure sale
price to be $177,660.00.
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Clerk of the Circuit Court
Charles County, MD
Feb 12, 19, 26, 2021 12336038
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TRUSTEE’S SALE OF
6289 GHADBAN COURT,
WARRENTON, VA 20187
In execution of a certain Deed of
Trust dated September 26, 2005,
in the original principal amount
of $344,250.00 recorded in the
Clerk’s Office, Circuit Court for
Fauquier County, Virginia, in Book
1183 at Page 1975 as Instrument
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for Fauquier County, 40 Culpeper
Street, Warrenton, Virginia on
March 18, 2021, at 1:00 PM, the
property described in said Deed
of Trust, located at the above
address, and more particularly
described as follows: LOT 39, SEC-
TION 2, CEDAR RUN, AS THE SAME
APPEARS DULY DEDICATED, PLAT-
TED AND RECORDED IN DEED
BOOK 394 AT PAGE 134 AMONG
THE LAND RECORDS OF FAUQUIER
COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bid-
der’s deposit of ten percent (10%)
of the sale price or ten percent
(10%) of the original principal bal-
ance of the subject Deed of Trust,
whichever is lower, in the form
of cash or certified funds payable
to the Substitute Trustee must be
present at the time of the sale.
The balance of the purchase price
will be due within fifteen (15) days
of sale, otherwise Purchaser’s
deposit may be forfeited to
Trustee. Time is of the essence.
If the sale is set aside for any
reason, the Purchaser at the sale
shall be entitled to a return of the
deposit paid. The Purchaser may,
if provided by the terms of the
Trustee’s Memorandum of Fore-
closure Sale, be entitled to a $50
cancellation fee from the Substi-
tute Trustee, but shall have no
further recourse against the Mort-
gagor, the Mortgagee or the Mort-
gagee’s attorney. A form copy of
the Trustee’s memorandum of
foreclosure sale and contract to
purchase real property is available
for viewing at
www.bwwsales.com. BIDDERS
ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO
FOLLOW CDC GUIDANCE AND
WEAR A COVER OVER BOTH NOSE
AND MOUTH AND PRACTICE
SOCIAL DISTANCING AT THE AUC-
TION. Additional terms, if any, to
be announced at the sale and the
Purchaser may be given the option
to execute the contract of sale
electronically. This is a communi-
cation from a debt collector and
any information obtained will be
used for that purpose. The sale
is subject to seller confirmation.
Substitute Trustee: Equity
Trustees, LLC, 8100 Three Chopt
Road, Suite 240, Richmond, VA
23229. For more information con-
tact: BWW Law Group, LLC, attor-
neys for Equity Trustees, LLC, 6003
Executive Blvd, Suite 101,
Rockville, MD 20852, 301-961-
6555, website:
www.bwwsales.com. VA-173358-
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Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC
1402 18TH PLACE SE, WASHINGTON, DC 20020
In execution of the Superior Court for the District of Columbia’s
Decree of Sale in Case #2019 CA 004397 R (RP), the
undersigned Substitute Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property
known as 1402 18TH PLACE SE, WASHINGTON, DC 20020
at public auction within the offices of, HARVEY WEST AUC-
TIONEERS, INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 440,
Washington, DC 20015 202-463-4567 On MARCH 23, 2021
AT 1:00 P.M., (Please Note: In the event that the office building
at 5335 Wisconsin Ave. NW is closed, all scheduled Washington,
DC sales will take place at the front entrance door of the Chevy
Chase Pavilion) the land and premises situated in the District of
Columbia, and designated as and being Lot 20 in Square 5567
and more particularly described in the Deed of Trust recorded in
the Land Records of the District of Columbia, on OCTOBER 22,
2018 as Instrument Number 2018105630.
The property will be sold by Trustee's Deed "as is" without
any covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee Simple, subject
to conditions, restrictions, easements, and all other recorded
instruments superior to the Deed of Trust referenced above, and
subject to ratification by the Court
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $38,000.00 or
10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in certified
funds CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. The deposit required
to bid at the auction is waived for the Noteholder and any of
its successors or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the
credit and may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be
announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is to be
paid in cash within 30 days of final ratification of the sale by the
Court.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE: If purchaser fails to settle within
the aforesaid THIRTY (30) days of the ratification, the purchaser
agrees to pay the Substitute Trustees' reasonable attorney fees
as ordered by the Court, plus all costs incurred, if the Substitute
Trustees have filed the appropriate motion with the Court to
resell the property. Purchaser waives personal service of any
paper filed with the Court in connection with such motion and
any Show Cause Order issued by the Court and expressly agrees
to accept service of any such paper or Order by certified mail
and regular mail sent to the address provided by the purchaser
and as recorded on the documents executed by the purchaser
at the time of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon
the purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United States
Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser that actual
receipt of the certified mail is not required for service to be
effective. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement the deposit
shall be forfeited to the Substitute Trustees and all expenses of
this sale (including attorney fees and full commission on the
gross sales price of the sale) shall be charged against and paid
from the forfeited deposit. In the event of resale the defaulting
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or
profits resulting from any resale of the property regardless of
any improvements made to the real property. Interest is to be
paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate contained in
the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date the
funds are received in the office of the Substitute Trustees.
In the event that the settlement is delayed for ANY REASON
WHATSOEVER, there shall be no abatement of interest. Taxes,
water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association
dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual
basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, to be adjusted for the current year to date of
sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for the costs of all transfer taxes, documentary
stamps and all other costs incident to settlement. Purchaser
shall be responsible for physical possession of the property.
Purchaser assumes the risk of loss from the date of sale forward.
The sale is subject to post sale audit by the Mortgage holder
to determine whether the borrower filed bankruptcy, entered
into any repayment/forbearance agreement, reinstated or paid
off prior to the sale. In any such event the Purchaser agrees
that upon notification by the Substitute Trustees of such event
the sale is null and void and of no legal effect and the deposit
returned without interest.
Substitute Trustees' File No. 20-006182
JAMES E. CLARKE AND HUGH J. GREEN
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE(S)
C/O ORLANS PC
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Leesburg, VA 20175
(703) 777-7101
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Montgomery County Montgomery County Anne Arundel County Anne Arundel County
MCMICHAEL TAYLOR GRAY, LLC BROCK & SCOTT, PLLC
11900 Parklawn Drive, Suite 320 5431 Oleander Drive
Rockville, Maryland 20852 Wilmington NC, 28403
(470) 289-4347 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE OF
TRUSTEE'S SALE VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
13713 Avonshire Drive KNOWN AS
Silver Spring, MD 20904
9 GREENWOOD AVE
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust dated Glen Burnie, MD 21061
July 18, 2006 and recorded in Deed Book 32773 at Page 761
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain
among the Land Records of Montgomery County, Maryland, Deed of Trust to MARYLAND 1ST TITLE, Trustee(s), dated
default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Substitute
February 22, 2006, and recorded among the Land Records of
Trustees will sell at public auction at the Montgomery County
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 17541, folio
Courthouse, located at 50 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, MD, on
506, the holder of the indebtedness secured by this Deed of
March 16, 2021 AT 1:00 PM Trust having appointed the undersigned Substitute Trustees, by
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the instrument duly recorded among the aforesaid Land Records,
default having occurred under the terms thereof, and at the
buildings and improvements thereon situated in Montgomery
request of the party secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute
County, Maryland, located at the above address and more fully
Trustee will offer for sale at public auction at THE ANNE
described in the aforementioned Deed of Trust (the “Property”).
ARUNDEL COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 8 CHURCH
TAX ID#: 05-02268288 CIR, ANNAPOLIS, MD 21401 ON,
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $5,800.00 by cashier’s/certified MARCH 16, 2021 at 10:00 AM
check or such other form as the Substitute Trustee may allow, in
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
their sole discretion, required at time of sale except for the party
thereon situated in ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MD and
secured by the Deed of Trust. Risk of loss on purchaser from date
described as follows:
and time of auction. The property and improvements will be sold
in “as is” physical condition without either express or implied
BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOTS NOS. 34 AND 36
warranty of any kind and subject to all conditions, restrictions
IN BLOCK 25 AS SHOWN ON A PLAT, OF WOODLYN HEIGHTS,
and agreements of record affecting the same. Balance of the
WHICH PLAT IS RECORDED AMONG THE LAND RECORDS
purchase price to be paid in cash within ten days of final
OFANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY IN LIBER G.W, NO. 66, FOLIO
ratification of sale. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase
491.
money at the rate of 11.55% from the date of sale to the date
The property will be sold in an "AS IS WHERE IS" condition
funds are received in the office of the Substitute Trustees. There
without either express or implied warranty or representation,
will be no abatement of interest in the event additional funds
including but not limited to the description, fitness for a
are tendered before settlement or if settlement is delayed for any
particular purpose or use, structural integrity, physical condition,
reason. construction, extent of construction, workmanship, materials,
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment liability, zoning, subdivision, environmental condition, mer-
of all real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if
chantability, compliance with building or housing codes or other
applicable, and any and all public and/or private charges or
laws, ordinances or regulations, or other similar matters, and
assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground rent, to
subject to easements, agreements and restrictions of record
be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
which affect the same, if any. The property will be sold
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any,
subject to all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of
shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale forward.
record affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110.
expenses shall be borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $20,000.00 payable in certified
responsible for obtaining physical possession of the Property. If
check or by a cashier's check will be required from purchaser
the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey title for any reason,
at time of sale, balance in immediately available funds upon
the purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited
final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court of ANNE ARUNDEL
to a refund of the deposit without interest. If the Purchaser
COUNTY, MARYLAND interest to be paid at the rate of 5.5% on
defaults, the deposit shall be forfeited to the Substitute Trustees
unpaid purchase money from date of sale to date of settlement.
for application against all expenses, attorney's fees and the full
The secured party herein, if a bidder, shall not be required to
commission on the sale price of the above-scheduled foreclosure
post a deposit. Third party purchaser (excluding the secured
sale. In the event of default, all expenses of this sale (including
party) will be required to complete full settlement of the
attorney's fees and the full commission on the gross sale price
purchase of the property within TEN (10) CALENDAR DAYS of
of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the
the ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court otherwise the
forfeited deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell
purchaser's deposit shall be forfeited and the property will be
the Property at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser
resold at the risk and expense, of the defaulting purchaser.
or may avail themselves of any legal or equitable remedies
All other public charges and private charges or assessments,
against the defaulting purchaser without re-selling the Property.
including water/sewer charges, ground rent, taxes if any, to be
In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not
adjusted to date of sale. Cost of all documentary stamps and
be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus
transfer taxes and all other costs incident to the settlement shall
results from improvements to the Property by said defaulting
be borne by the purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or
purchaser and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the
homeowner association dues and assessments will be adjusted to
Trustees and secured party for reasonable attorney's fees and
date of sale. If the sale is rescinded or not ratified for any reason,
expenses incurred in connection with all litigation involving the
including post sale lender audit, or the Substitute Trustees are
Property or the proceeds of the resale. This sale is subject to
unable to convey insurable title or a resale is to take place for
post-sale audit of the status of the loan secured by the Deed
any reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in law or equity shall
of Trust including, but not limited to, determining whether
be limited to the refund of the aforementioned deposit. The
prior to sale a bankruptcy was filed; forbearance, repayment or
purchaser waives all rights and claims against the Substitute
other agreement was entered into; or the loan was reinstated
Trustees whether known or unknown. These provisions shall
or paid off. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void
survive settlement Upon refund of the deposit, this sale shall be
and Purchaser’s sole remedy shall be return of deposit without
void and of no effect, and the purchaser shall have no further
interest.
claim against the Substitute Trustees. The sale is subject to post-
Keith M. Yacko, and Gregory Thorne, Substitute Trustees
sale review of the status of the loan and that if any agreement to
File No.: MD2019-00050 cancel the sale was entered into by the lender and borrower prior
to the sale then the sale is void and the purchaser's deposit shall
be refunded without interest. Additional terms and conditions, if
applicable, maybe announced at the time and date of sale. Sale
is subject to the attestation by the Borrower in accordance with
Section 5.A of the Governor's order of 10.16.2020 . File No.
(19-17127)
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and 727 North West Street; 1319,
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1329 Wythe Street - Braddock
West
Public Hearing and consideration
of a request for: (A) Amendments
to the Braddock Road Metro
Station Small Area Plan Chapter
of the Master Plan through
updates to the Development Site
Map, Development and Land Use
tables in the Braddock Metro
Neighborhood Plan Overlay, and
the Development Framework
Map and Land Use and
Development tables in the
Braddock East Master Plan
Overlay; (B) amendment to the
official zoning map to change
the zone for the site from RB to
OCH; (C) a Development Special
Use Permit and site plan with
modifications to construct a 180-
unit multifamily building with
ground-floor commercial uses,
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increase the floor area ratio to
3.0 in the OCH zone, the
utilization of Section 7-700 for
bonus density and height for the
provision of affordable housing,
for a parking reduction for
residential and commercial uses,
to allow a restaurant, retail
shopping or personal service
establishments on a lot which
does not include office buildings,
provided such use supports and
serves office uses in the
immediate zoned area, and a
fraternal or private club; (D) a
Special Use Permit for a
Transportation Management
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Notice is hereby given this 22nd
day of February, 2021, by the Circuit
Court for Prince George's County,
Maryland, that the sale of 5809
Gabriel Duvall Court, Glenn Dale,
MD 20769 made and reported, will
be ratified and confirmed, unless
cause to the contrary thereof be
shown on or before the 22nd day
of March, 2021, provided a copy of
this notice be inserted in a daily
newspaper printed in said County,
once in each of three successive
weeks before the 22nd day of
March, 2021. The Report of Sale
states the amount of the foreclo-
sure sale price to be $595,000.00.
Mahasin El Amin #544
Clerk of the Circuit Court
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Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC Anne Arundel County Anne Arundel County Frederick County Frederick County Anne Arundel County
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE TRUSTEE'S SALE MCMICHAEL TAYLOR GRAY, LLC
OF REAL PROPERTY 11900 Parklawn Drive, Suite 320 How about some
COMPRISING A MULTI-TENANT OFFICE BUILDING
14 Wainwright Ave, Annapolis, MD 21403 Rockville, Maryland 20852 home delivery?
1350 I STREET, NW Trustee's Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by (470) 289-4347
Washington, DC 20005 premises known as 14 Wainwright Ave, Annapolis, MD 21403. TRUSTEE'S SALE 1-800-753-POST
(LOT 857 SQUARE 250) By virtue of the power and authority contained in a Deed of Trust,
dated February 13, 2017, and recorded in Liber 31104 at Page 10534 Hessong Bridge Road SF
In execution of the power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust, Security Agreement and Fixture Filing dated February 8, 2018, and 18 among the land records of the County of Anne Arundel, in Thurmont, MD 21788
recorded on February 9, 2018, as Instrument No. 2018014857 with the District of Columbia Recorder of Deeds (the “Recorder of the original principal amount of $938,250.00. Upon default Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
Deeds”), in the maximum principal amount of $182,500,000.00 (“Deed of Trust”), which Deed of Trust also constitutes a security and request for sale, the undersigned trustees will offer for sale dated June 10, 2008 and recorded in Deed Book 7026 at Page
agreement and creates a security interest in all the fixtures and personal property described in the Deed of Trust, defaults having at public auction at the Courthouse for the COUNTY OF ANNE 298 among the Land Records of Frederick County, Maryland,
occurred under the Deed of Trust and in the payment of the debts secured thereby, and being instructed to do so by holder of the ARUNDEL, at 8 Church Circle, Annapolis, Maryland, on March default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Substitute
promissory note (“Note”) secured thereby (the “Noteholder”), and following mailing of a Notice of Foreclosure Sale of Real Property Trustees will sell at public auction at the Frederick County
or Condominium Unit, which was recorded with the Recorder of Deeds on February 2, 2021, as Instrument No. 2021013634, and 9, 2021 at 4:00 PM, all that property described in said Deed of Courthouse located at 100 West Patrick Street, Frederick, MD,
the recordation with the Recorder of Deeds of a Deed of Appointment of Substitute Trustees as Instrument No. 2021013635, and the Trust including but not limited to: on
recordation with the Recorder of Deeds of an Affidavit of Non-residential Mortgage Foreclosure as Instrument No. 2021013636, the Tax ID# 02-047-08069810
undersigned Substitute Trustees, any of whom may act, will on March 10, 2021, at 11:00 a.m., offer for sale at public auction the Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling and March 16, 2021 AT 10:00 AM
real and personal property described below. The auction sale will be held outside of the Wisconsin Avenue entrance to the Chevy is sold in "as is condition" and subject to all superior covenants, ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with
Chase Pavilion, located at 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W., Washington D.C. 20015, which building houses the offices of Harvey West conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-of-way, as may the buildings and improvements thereon situated in Frederick
Auctioneers, LLC, in Suite 440. affect same, if any. County, Maryland, located at the above address and more fully
The real property being sold includes the land and all buildings, structures, and other improvements thereon (if any), and all leases, TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash or described in the aforementioned Deed of Trust (the “Property”).
rents, issues and profits, and other appurtenant rights associated with the ownership of the land (if any), described as follows: certified funds shall be required at the time of sale. The balance TAX ID#: 20-406283
All that certain lot or parcel of land together with all improvements thereon located and being in the City of Washington in the District of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per annum from the TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $23,000.00 by cashier’s/certi-
of Columbia and being more particularly described as follows: date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within TEN DAYS fied check or such other form as the Substitute Trustee may
Parcel 1 after the final ratification of the sale. allow, in their sole discretion, required at time of sale except
for the party secured by the Deed of Trust. Risk of loss on
Part of Lot numbered Fifty-two (52) in Square numbered Two Hundred Fifty (250) in the subdivision made by Manufacturers Adjustments on all taxes, public charges and special or regular purchaser from date and time of auction. The property and
Life Insurance Company, and others, as per plat recorded in Liber 183 at folio 117, among the records of the Office of the assessments will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter improvements will be sold in “as is” physical condition without
Surveyor for the District of Columbia, also being all of Lot 50 in Square 250, as per plat recorded in the aforesaid Surveyor’s assumed by purchaser. either express or implied warranty of any kind and subject to all
Office in Liber 178 at folio 115, being more particularly described as follows: If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners association
conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the
BEGINNING at the northwest corner of said Lot 52 in Square 250, said beginning also being the northwest corner of Square dues and assessments that may become due after the time same. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
250, said beginning also being the intersection of the south line of I Street, 90 feet wide, and the east line of 14th Street, 110 feet of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser. Title ten days of final ratification of sale. Interest to be paid on the
wide, and leaving said beginning and running with said south line I Street, East 250.96 feet to an east line of said Lot 52; thence examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer unpaid purchase money at the rate of 4% from the date of sale
with said east line of Lot 52, South, 144.0 feet to a south line of said Lot 52 and the north line of a 30 foot wide public alley; taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement to the date funds are received in the office of the Substitute
thence with said south line of Lot 52 and its westerly extension into Lot 52, West, 140.46 feet to a west line of said Lot 50; thence are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for Trustees. There will be no abatement of interest in the event
continuing with the boundary of said Lot 50 through said Lot 52 the two following courses and distances: 1) North, 7.50 feet 2) the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the additional funds are tendered before settlement or if settlement Explore
West, 110.50 feet to the east line of 14th Street, aforesaid; thence with said east line of 14th Street, North 136.50 feet to the place property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting is delayed for any reason. cuisines
of beginning, containing 35,309.49 square feet, more or less. purchaser. If the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees
are unable to convey marketable title in accord with these terms TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment
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NOTE: At the date hereof the above described property is designated on the Records of the Assessor for the District of of sale, the purchaser's only remedy is the return of the deposit. of all real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if of tested recipes by
Columbia for assessment and taxation purposes as Lot numbered Eight Hundred Fifty-seven (857) in Square numbered Two Trustee's File No. 19-285358. applicable, and any and all public and/or private charges or ingredient or name.
Hundred Fifty (250). Kristine D. Brown, et al., Substitute Trustees. assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground rent, to
Parcel 2 SHAPIRO & BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford Road, Suite 200, be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. wpost.com/recipes
Manassas, Virginia 20109 (410) 769-9797 Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any,
Easement for the benefit of Parcel 1 as created by Easement Agreement dated May 2, 1988 and recorded October 6, 1988 shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale forward.
as Instrument No. 55447 by and between Franklin Associates Limited Partnership and The Manufacturers life Insurance Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement
Company for vehicular access over, under, and across the land described as follows: expenses shall be borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be
Part of Original Lots 27 and 28, and Part of Original Alley, in Square 250, said lands now being a part of Lot 51 in Square 250 responsible for obtaining physical possession of the Property. If
as per plat recorded in the Office of the Surveyor for the District of Columbia in Liber 180 at folio 5, being a space whose lower the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey title for any reason,
limit is the finished top of concrete driveway slab, within the herein described easement, of an office building at the northeast the purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited
corner of said Square 250, the upper limit of said space being a horizontal plane passing 14.0 feet above the highest point of said www.hwestauctions.com to a refund of the deposit without interest. If the Purchaser
lower limit, the vertical boundary of said space being more particularly described as follows: A181, A316, A311, A182, A183, A425, A426, A461, A463 defaults, the deposit shall be forfeited to the Substitute Trustees
BEGINNING on the east line of said Lot 28 at a point removed, South, 15.77 feet from the northeast corner thereof and leaving FEBRUARY 19, 26, MARCH 5, 2021 12334315 for application against all expenses, attorney's fees and the full
said beginning and running through said Lot 28 the five following courses and distances: 1) West, 30.42 feet 2) North, 7.91 feet, commission on the sale price of the above-scheduled foreclosure
to a point of curve 3) 6.28 feet on the arc of a curve to the left of radius 4.0 feet to a point of tangent 4) West, 49.04 feet 5) South sale. In the event of default, all expenses of this sale (including
37 degrees West, 20.84 feet, thence along the east line of Original Alley, North 13.0 feet; thence along the south line of Original attorney's fees and the full commission on the gross sale price
Alley Proposed to be Closed per document known and distinguished as S.O. File 85-241 among the aforesaid Surveyor’s Office BROCK & SCOTT, PLLC of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the
records, West, 20.94 feet; thence through said Alley Proposed to be Closed and Original Lot 27 the six following courses and 5431 Oleander Drive forfeited deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell
distances: 1) North 45 degrees East, 33.40 feet, to a point of curve 2) 2.75 feet on the arc of a curve to the right having a radius Wilmington NC, 28403 the Property at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser
3.5 feet to a point of tangent 3) East, 54.57 feet, to a point of curve 4) 9.53 feet on the arc of a curve to the right of radius 21.0 feet, or may avail themselves of any legal or equitable remedies
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE OF against the defaulting purchaser without re-selling the Property.
to a point of tangent 5) South 64 degrees East, 23.46 feet 6) East 6.0 feet, and thence along the east line of said Lots 27 and 28, VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
South 20.50 feet to the place of beginning. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not S0316 1cx6

KNOWN AS be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus

Parcel 3 results from improvements to the Property by said defaulting
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Easement for the benefit of Parcel 1 as created by Single Record Lot and Setback Agreement dated April 30, 1990 and Laurel, MD 20724 purchaser and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the
recorded June 8, 1990 as Instrument No. 32702 by and between 817 Fourteenth Street Associates Limited Partnership and The Trustees and secured party for reasonable attorney's fees and
Manufacturers Life Insurance Company for purposes of providing a light and air easement for the benefit of the owner of Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain expenses incurred in connection with all litigation involving the
Parcel 1. Deed of Trust dated May 22, 2006, and recorded among the Property or the proceeds of the resale. This sale is subject to
Land Records of ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber post-sale audit of the status of the loan secured by the Deed
Only the personal property subject to the operation and effect of the Deed of Trust and actually located at the real property at the time 17941, folio 603, the holder of the indebtedness secured by
of sale will be sold and conveyed. The Substitute Trustees make no representation or warranty as to the identity of such personal this Deed of Trust having appointed the undersigned Substitute of Trust including, but not limited to, determining whether
property, nor will the Substitute Trustees deliver possession of any such personal property, it being the responsibility of the purchaser to Trustees, by instrument duly recorded among the aforesaid Land prior to sale a bankruptcy was filed; forbearance, repayment or
identify and obtain possession of such personal property. The real and personal property are hereinafter referred to as the “Property”. other agreement was entered into; or the loan was reinstated
Records, default having occurred under the terms thereof, and or paid off. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void
To qualify as a bidder a deposit of $2,000,000.00, by certified or cashier's check, must be displayed to the Substitute Trustees prior to at the request of the party secured thereby, the undersigned and Purchaser’s sole remedy shall be return of deposit without
the commencement of the sale by each bidder other than the Noteholder, servicer acting on the Noteholder’s behalf, or any subsidiary Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public auction at interest.
or affiliate of the Noteholder (each a “Lender Affiliated Party”). Any Lender Affiliated Party may apply the outstanding amount THE ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 8
of the debt under the Note as a credit to its bid. The deposit, without interest, will be applied to the purchase price at closing. CHURCH CIR, ANNAPOLIS, MD 21401 ON, Keith M. Yacko, and Gregory Thorne, Substitute Trustees
Immediately after the strikedown of the bid, the purchaser shall be required to sign and deliver a contract of sale expanding upon the MARCH 16, 2021 at 10:00 AM File No.: MD2020-00254
terms of this notice and incorporating verbal announcements, if any. Prior to the sale, the Substitute Trustees will make available for ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
prospective bidders upon request a copy of the contract of sale. thereon situated in ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MD and
The Property shall be sold in its “AS IS, WHERE IS” condition and without recourse, representation or warranty, express or implied, as described as follows:
to the nature, condition or description of the Property, equipment, fixtures, or improvements. BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT NUMBERED THIR-
Conveyance of the Property shall be by the trustees’ deed and quitclaim bill of sale without warranty, and shall be subject to all TY-THREE (33) IN A SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS "SECTION 5,
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recorded and unrecorded liens, encumbrances, security interests, easements, conditions, reservations, covenants, restrictions, leases, MARYLAND CITY" AS PER PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN FEBRUARY 26, MARCH 5, 12, 2021 12335132
occupancy agreements, rights of way, rights of redemption of federal lienholders or encumbrances whether of record or not of record, PLAT BOOK 32 AT PLAT 8 AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF
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and mechanics and materialmen’s liens, to the extent any of the foregoing may lawfully apply to the Property being sold or any part ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MARYLAND. PROPERTY ADDRESS: Howard County Howard County
thereof, and take priority over the liens and security interests of the Deed of Trust. The Property is sold subject to such state of facts that 345 MERGANZA SOUTH, LAUREL, MD 20724 TAX ID NUMBER:
an accurate survey or physical inspection might disclose. The Property will be sold subject to the rights of any person(s) in possession 447203081612 TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY: LAWYERS
of any or all of the Property as tenants under any recorded or unrecorded leases, if any. TITLE INSURANCE CORPORATION ORLANS PC
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Purchaser will take title to the Property subject to all taxes, public charges, assessments, water and sewer charges, and other utility The property will be sold in an "AS IS WHERE IS" condition The past, rediscovered
charges, attaching as liens superior to the lien of the Deed of Trust, if any, and subject to all expenses of the Property, accrued before or without either express or implied warranty or representation, LEESBURG, VA 20175
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after the sale, and all such expenses shall be the responsibility of the purchaser. At Noteholder’s option, all leasing commissions, tenant including but not limited to the description, fitness for a
improvements and any other expenses as determined by Noteholder in its sole discretion paid prior to the closing shall be prorated in a particular purpose or use, structural integrity, physical condition, SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S SALE
manner acceptable to Noteholder in its sole discretion. construction, extent of construction, workmanship, materials, OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
Neither the Substitute Trustees nor any Lender Affiliated Party, nor their respective agents, successors or assigns make any liability, zoning, subdivision, environmental condition, mer- 9202 WILBUR COURT
representations or warranties, either expressed or implied with respect to the Property including, without limitation, recorded or chantability, compliance with building or housing codes or other Columbia, MD 21046
unrecorded leases or other occupancy agreements, if any, operating and management agreements, if any, or use, physical conditions, laws, ordinances or regulations, or other similar matters, and Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from
structural integrity, construction, workmanship, habitability, zoning, subdivision, fitness for a particular purpose or merchantability, or subject to easements, agreements and restrictions of record DENISE S. LEE, dated September 26, 2016 and recorded in
compliance with building codes, environmental ordinances or regulations or similar matters, or compliance with the Americans with which affect the same, if any. The property will be sold Liber 17172, folio 449 among the Land Records of HOWARD
Disabilities Act. The purchaser recognizes and agrees that any investigation, examination, or inspection of the Property being sold is subject to all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of COUNTY, MD, default having occurred thereunder (Foreclosure
within the control of the owner or other parties in possession and their agents and not within the control of the Substitute Trustees, or record affecting same including any condominium and of HOA Case docketed as Case No.C13CV20000185; Tax ID No.06-
their successors or assigns, or any Lender Affiliated Party. assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110. 456316 ) the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Property will be sold without representation or warranty as to the environmental TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $29,000.00 payable in certified HOWARD COUNTY COURTHOUSE, located at 8360 COURT
condition of the Property or the compliance of the Property with federal, state, or local laws and regulations concerning the purchase or check or by a cashier's check will be required from purchaser AVE, ELLICOTT CITY, MD 21043, on
disposal of hazardous substances. Acceptance of the deed to the Property shall constitute a waiver of any claims against the Substitute at time of sale, balance in immediately available funds upon MARCH 2, 2021 at 11:30 AM
Trustees or any of the Lender Affiliated Parties (collectively, “Releasees”), concerning the environmental condition of the Property final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court of ANNE ARUNDEL
including, but not limited to, claims arising under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of COUNTY, MARYLAND interest to be paid at the rate of 5.0% on ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
1980, as amended, and/or state or local law, ordinances or regulations. The purchaser waives any cause of action it may have against the unpaid purchase money from date of sale to date of settlement. thereon situated in HOWARD COUNTY, MD and more fully
Releasees, for any condition of the Property that may not comply with any federal, state or local law, regulation or ruling including, The secured party herein, if a bidder, shall not be required to described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
without limitation, any laws, regulations and rulings relating to environmental contamination or hazardous wastes. Such agreement post a deposit. Third party purchaser (excluding the secured The property will be sold in an "as is" condition and subject to
also shall provide that if, notwithstanding such agreement, a court of competent jurisdiction should permit such a claim to be made party) will be required to complete full settlement of the conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the
against any Releasees, such agreement shall serve as the overwhelming primary factor in any equitable apportionment of response costs purchase of the property within TEN (10) CALENDAR DAYS of same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
or other liability. Nothing in this paragraph shall release, waive or preclude any claims the purchaser may have against any other person the ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court otherwise the Terms of Sale: A deposit $25,000.00 will be required at the
with respect to the Property. purchaser's deposit shall be forfeited and the property will be time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK OR BY
resold at the risk and expense, of the defaulting purchaser. CASHIER'S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Balance
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Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to the Property from the strikedown of the bid forward. Purchaser shall be responsible for All other public charges and private charges or assessments,
obtaining physical possession of the Property. of the purchase price to be paid in cash within ten days of final
including water/sewer charges, ground rent, taxes if any, to be ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for HOWARD COUNTY.
Purchaser shall settle on or before thirty (30) days after the sale. TIME SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE. The balance of the purchase adjusted to date of sale. Cost of all documentary stamps and
price of the Property over and above the bidding deposit, with interest thereon at 3.75% per annum, from the date of sale through transfer taxes and all other costs incident to the settlement shall Time is of the essence as to the purchaser. If the purchaser
the date of receipt of the balance of the purchase price, will be due at closing by cashiers or certified check or by immediately be borne by the purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or defaults, the deposit shall be forfeited and the property shall
available wire funds. Purchaser shall be responsible for payment of all settlement costs including, but not limited to, deed preparation homeowner association dues and assessments will be adjusted to be resold at the purchaser's risk and expense. The purchaser
and all recordation taxes and charges, settlement fees, title insurance premiums, and all other costs incident to settlement. All rents, date of sale. If the sale is rescinded or not ratified for any reason, waives personal service and accepts service by first class mail
and certified mail addressed to the address provided by said
without pro-ration for the current month, collected to the day prior to closing shall remain the property of the Noteholder. All rents, including post sale lender audit, or the Substitute Trustees are Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any
without pro-ration for the current month, and any delinquent rents, collected on and after the day of closing shall be the property unable to convey insurable title or a resale is to take place for Motion or Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a
of the purchaser. Utilities associated with the Property shall be adjusted at closing, with the meters read the day prior to closing. any reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in law or equity shall Motion to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property.
If the successful bidder fails to complete settlement, the deposit shall be forfeited and applied to the costs of the sale, including trustees’ be limited to the refund of the aforementioned deposit. The In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not
fees, and the balance, if any, shall be delivered to the Noteholder to be applied against all amounts owed it under the note and Deed of purchaser waives all rights and claims against the Substitute be entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including,
Trust. There shall be no refunds. The Property shall be resold at the risk and the cost of the defaulting bidder. Such forfeiture shall not Trustees whether known or unknown. These provisions shall but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which may
limit any rights or remedies of the Substitute Trustees or the Noteholder with respect to any such default, and the defaulting purchaser survive settlement Upon refund of the deposit, this sale shall be arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase
shall be liable for all costs of re-sale of the Property (including attorneys’ fees of the Noteholder and the Substitute Trustees), plus void and of no effect, and the purchaser shall have no further money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the
any amount by which the ultimate sale price for the Property is less than the defaulting purchaser’s bid. After any such default and claim against the Substitute Trustees. The sale is subject to post- date of sale to the date funds are received by the Substitute
forfeiture, the Property may, at the discretion of the Substitute Trustees, be conveyed to the next highest bidder of the Property whose sale review of the status of the loan and that if any agreement to Trustees. There will be no abatement of interest in the event
bid was acceptable to the Substitute Trustees. The defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting cancel the sale was entered into by the lender and borrower prior additional funds are tendered at the time of sale or any
from any resale of the Property. to the sale then the sale is void and the purchaser's deposit shall time prior to settlement or if the settlement is delayed for
be refunded without interest. Additional terms and conditions, if any reason. In the event that the Secured Party executes a
If the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey title as required herein, purchaser’s sole remedy at law and in equity shall be limited to a applicable, maybe announced at the time and date of sale. Sale
forbearance agreement with the borrower(s) described in the
refund of the deposit and the sale shall be considered null and void and of no effect whatsoever. is subject to the attestation by the Borrower in accordance with above-mentioned Deed of Trust, or allows the borrower(s) to
The Substitute Trustees reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to reject any and all bids, to withdraw all or part of the Property Section 5.A of the Governor's order of 10.16.2020 . File No. execute their right to reinstate or payoff the subject loan,
from sale at any time before or at the auction, to modify the requirement for bidders’ deposits, to extend the time to receive bids, (19-17139) prior to the sale, with or without the Substitute Trustee's prior
to waive or modify the deposit requirement, to amend or supplement the terms of the sale by verbal announcement made by the Brennan Ferguson, Christine N. Johnson, knowledge, this Contract shall be null and void and of no effect,
Substitute Trustees at the sale, to recess the sale, to conduct other sales as the Substitute Trustees may determine in their discretion, Robert A. Oliveri, Melissa Alcocer, and the Purchaser's sole remedy shall be the return of the deposit
and/or to extend the period of time for settlement. Substitute Trustees without interest. Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps,
Immediately upon conveyance and assignment by the Substitute Trustees of the Property to the purchaser or purchasers at transfer taxes and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent,
foreclosure, all duties, liabilities and obligations of the Substitute Trustees, if any, with respect to the Property shall be extinguished. water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association
dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual
Substitute Trustees:
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applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed
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For Information contact:
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